Sociology

Introduction to the Science of Sociology

Park, Robert Ezra; Burgess, E. W.

The Introduction to the Science of Sociology presents itself as a systematic treatise rather than a loose…

The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells‑Barnett’s The Red Record is a meticulously compiled statistical expose that documents the brutal…

The Future of the American Negro

Booker T. Washington

The work is a nonfiction treatise by Booker T. Washington that examines the present and future condition of…

They Who Knock at Our Gates: A Complete Gospel of Immigration

Mary Antin

They Who Knock at Our Gates is a polemical treatise that frames the immigration question as a moral test of…

Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World. To which are added rules for determining the precise figure, the degree of beauty, the habits, and the age of women, notwithstanding the aids and disguise of dress.

Anonymous

The work presents itself as a sweeping survey of women across history and geography, framed as a moral and…

The origins of art; A Psychological & Sociological Inquiry

Y. Hirn

The book is a scholarly investigation that confines itself to the psychological and sociological roots of…

The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World

William W. Sanger

The book is a nineteenth‑century scholarly survey of prostitution, begun in 1856 and hurried to press after a…

Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child.

Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading presents itself as a wide‑ranging compendium of essays,…

London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 1

Henry Mayhew

The work is a nineteenth‑century social survey that sets out to catalogue the myriad occupations and…

The Young Man's Guide

William A. Alcott

The Young Man’s Guide presents itself as a practical handbook for the moral and social formation of a young…

A history of social thought

Emory S. Bogardus

This work is a scholarly survey of how societies have thought about themselves and each other, written…

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases is a nonfiction pamphlet by Ida B.

The Task of Social Hygiene

Havelock Ellis

The work is a sweeping treatise on what Ellis calls “social hygiene,” a concept he defines as the study of…

Social Civics

Munro, William Bennett; Ozanne, Charles Eugene

Social Civics is a comprehensive textbook on American government and civic life, authored by William Bennett…

The Indian To-day: The Past and Future of the First American

Charles A. Eastman

The work is a nonfiction study that sets out to examine the condition and prospects of the North American…

The Eugenic Marriage, Volume 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies

W. Grant Hague

The Eugenic Marriage, Volume 2 of 4 is a self‑help manual that frames personal hygiene, marriage, and the…

The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion.

P. H. Ditchfield

The work is a sprawling, pseudo‑scholarly satire that pretends to present the “original researches” of a…

Chapters in Rural Progress

Kenyon L. Butterfield

Kenyon L. Butterfield’s Chapters in Rural Progress is a nonfiction survey of the American farm problem,…

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1

R. V. Russell

The work is a government‑commissioned ethnographic survey of the Central Provinces, prepared under the…

Die moderne Ehe und wie man sie ertragen soll

Maud Churton Braby

Das Werk „Die moderne Ehe und wie man sie ertragen soll“ von Maud Ch.

The Eugenic Marriage, Volume 4 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies

W. Grant Hague

The Eugenic Marriage is a four‑volume medical handbook that frames child‑rearing as a scientific project.

La transformación de las razas en América

Agustín Alvarez

El libro es una extensa reflexión histórica y moral sobre la transformación de las razas en América, escrita…

The Arena, Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891

Various

The Arena, Volume 4, No. 22, September 1891, is a periodical anthology that gathers essays on contemporary…

A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science

James Leslie Allan Kayll

James Leslie Allan Kayll’s A Plea for the Criminal is a compact work of criminological argument that opens…