These are some of the more “Serious” tomes of Sociology I’ve read in my quest to understand a little more about this field of study. They encompass the books from this list by the International Sociology Association, as well as textbooks.
February 2012
Goffman, Erving. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Anchor Books. 1959
November 2011
Braverman, Harry. Labour and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century. 1976
August 2011
Mead, George Herbert Mind Self and Society. University of Chicago Press. 1967
July 2011
Coser, Lewis A. and Rosenberg, Bernard. Sociological Theory: A Book of Readings. 2nd. Edition. Waveland Press.
June 2011
Hochschild, Arlie Russell. The Time Bind. Holt Paperbacks. 2001
Mills, C. Wright. The Sociological Imagination. New York. Oxford University Press. 1959
May 2011
Massey, Garth. Readings for Sociology. 4th ed. New York, NY. W.W. Norton and Company. 2003.
March – May 2011
Simmel, Georg. The Philosophy of Money. Boston, MA. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. 1978 (orig. pub 1907)
Coser, Lewis. Georg Simmel.
February 2011
Renzetti, Claire, and Daniel Curran. Living Sociology. Needham Heights. Allyn and Bacon. 1998.
Stones, Rob. Key Sociological Thinkers. 2nd Edition. New York. Palgrave MacMillan. 2007.
