books about: sociologist

books about: sociologist

books:

Sociologist

Charles Manson

Grove Press, 1994

excellent find
very interesting book. was one of those you do not want to put down. it gave a different perspective of the happenings of the manson family. however, one must keep in mind it was recorded from what charles manson believed happened. great book.

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

Sudhir Venkatesh

Penguin Press HC, The, 2008

A great look into a side of America that most people never see.
This is a narrative of Sudhir Venkatesh as he explores the community and economy of a crack gang. This is a very interesting book and I think it really helped me understand the world better. I would suggest this to anyone that will work with the public, any teachers, ...

Otto Neurath
Nader Vossoughian, Otto Neurath

NAi Publishers, 2008

Austrian sociologist Otto Neurath was a seminal Modernist figure. Much attention has been given to his achievements in the fields of graphic design and philosophy (Neurath was a member of the Vienna Circle, founder of the Museum of Society and Economy, inventor of the ISOTYPE pictorial system and champion of the Unity of Science movement), yet his ...

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (Dover Thrift Editions)

W. E. B. Du Bois

Dover Publications, 1999

BELOVED, LISTEN TO CONSCIENTIOUS VOICES.
Fondly called W.E.B., Dr William Edward Burghardt DuBois was a conscientious voice, whose mouthpiece was just a pen. Each of his writings buttressed this point. A bundle of intellect, all his works have remained potent till this day. Having enumerated the problems and ...

Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk: A Caseworker's Story

Marc Parent, Anna Quindlen (foreword)

Ballantine Books, 1998

A beautiful, yet emotionally challenging read...
I read this book very, very quickly. That's the only way to read it, to avoid breaking down and sobbing throughout every chapter. And there are some doozies in here. Remember the story of the woman who threw two of her five children out the window of her tenement ...

Emile Durkheim on Morality and Society (Heritage of Sociology Series)

Emile Durkheim

University Of Chicago Press, 1973

Great for students
Bellah has gathered Durkheim's most oft-cited writings (including Elementary Forms, Division of Labor, Suicide, and Sociological Method) and arranged them topically in this work. The book begins with Durkheim's review of French social thought, then chapters on ...

Sketch for a Self-Analysis
Pierre Bourdieu

University Of Chicago Press, 2008

Over the past four decades, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory of the postwar era. When he died in 2002, he was considered to be the most influential sociologist in the world and a thinker on a par with Foucault and Lévi-Strauss?a public intellectual as important to his ...

Down These Mean Streets

Piri Thomas

Vintage, 1997

One of the best memoirs ever written
I've read this book more than a few times and have taught it to different level readers a few extra times. There was one high school student who came to me after the book was done and told me, "This is the first book I ever finished." Even if it's not the first book ...

Morrie: In His Own Words

Morrie Schwartz

Delta, 2000

Morrie: In His Own Words.
I wish I had read this book when my husband was dying of ALS. It should be a must for everyone who'd been given a Medical Death Sentance and their family who have to stand by helplessly while their loved one diminishes and then dies before their eyes. It's compelling ...

The Happy Hooker: My Own Story

Xaviera Hollander

Harper Paperbacks, 2002

A great read; valuable for its place in history
As a modern twenty-something who wasn't even born when this book first came out in 1972, I enjoyed picking up what is undeniably a part of the history of American sexual culture. I tried to keep in perspective how shocking this book must have been in the 1970's, ...

Classmates, The: Privilege, Chaos, and the End of an Era

Geoffrey Douglas

Hyperion, 2008

John and Arthur
Douglas, Geoffrey. "Classmates", Hyperion, 2008. John and Arthur Amos Lassen It is the fall of 1957 and John and Arthur, two fifteen year old boys, are at an exclusive New England boarding school. This is the setting of Geoffrey Douglas' new book, ...

Emile Durkheim: Sociologist of Modernity (Modernity and Society)

Wiley-Blackwell, 2003

This comprehensive volume ranges across the entire spectrum of contemporary sociological inquiry, as seen by Durkheim. It also includes secondary readings by social thinkers of today, connecting the classic writings of Durkheim to contemporary issues. Organizes Durkheim's writings thematically, in a comprehensive collection Includes ...

Classical Sociological Theory

George Ritzer

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2007

Sociological Theory
This book was in excellent condition considering that it is used. I was very impressed with the rate of delivery.

Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood

Kate Simon

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1997

An unintentionally poetic inspiring memoir
Good fortune was with me when I happened upon this book last year. It is now one of my all-time favorites and I went on to read the two books that chronologically follow this one. My only complaint is that Ms. Simon died before she had the chance to tell us every ...

Masters of Sociological Thought: Ideas in Historical and Social Context

Lewis A. Coser

Harcourt, 1977

Awesome!
This piece includes all the greats within social thought (that truly should be included). I use this as a text for my Social Thought course. It is especially nice that "revisionists" thinking concerning the greats that had the largest impact on the field of sociology ...