Sociology

Sibylla: or, The revival of prophecy

C. A. Mace

Sibyll​a or The Revival of Prophecy is a speculative essay that treats the future of scientific thought as a…

The International Jew, the world's foremost problem [volume I]: being a reprint of a series of articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent from May 22 to October 2, 1920

Cameron, William John; Ford, Henry

The volume is a reprint of the first nine articles that appeared in Henry Ford’s Dearborn Independent between…

The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892

Friedrich Engels

The work is Friedrich Engels’s 1844 survey of the English working‑class, first published in German in 1845…

Civilization in the United States: An inquiry by thirty Americans

The volume is a collaborative effort by thirty American thinkers, each contributing a concise essay on a…

Race Distinctions in American Law

Gilbert Thomas Stephenson

The work is a scholarly survey of how American statutes, constitutional provisions, and court rulings have…

The Eugenic Marriage, Volume 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies

W. Grant Hague

The Eugenic Marriage, Volume 3 of 4 is a self‑help treatise that frames marriage, child‑bearing, and personal…

The Theory of the Leisure Class

Thorstein Veblen

The work is a sociological treatise that sets out to trace the emergence of a “leisure class” from the most…

Sinks of London Laid Open A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, with a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves

The work is a Victorian‑era social survey that sets out to chart the hidden world of London’s common lodging…

Degeneration

Max Simon Nordau

The work is a polemical study that treats literature, art and culture as symptoms of a broader social…

The New Society

Walther Rathenau

Walther Rathenau’s The New Society is a polemical treatise that blends personal memoir with a sweeping…

Socialism: A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles

John Spargo

The work is a revised survey of socialist doctrine authored by John Spargo and issued in 1908.

The Jew and American Ideals

John Spargo

The work is a polemical tract that frames itself as a personal rebuttal to Henry Ford’s anti‑Jewish campaign,…

Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic

Sidney Lewis Gulick

Sidney L. Gulick’s Evolution of the Japanese, Social and Psychic is a scholarly survey that attempts to…

The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest The writings of philosophers, poets, novelists, social reformers, and others who have voiced the struggle against social injustice; Selected From Twenty-five Languages; Covering a Period of Five Thousand Years

The Cry for Justice is an ambitious anthology that gathers the voices of philosophers, poets, novelists, and…

The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind

Nathan, George Jean; Mencken, H. L.

The work is a polemical essay that treats the American national character as a subject for sociological and…

The Evolution of States

J. M. Robertson

The work is a scholarly treatise that seeks to explain the rise and decline of political entities by tracing…

A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia

Benjamin Griffith Brawley

Benjamin Griffith Brawley’s work is a sweeping social history that seeks to trace the experience of…

The crowd: A study of the popular mind

Gustave Le Bon

The work is a scholarly treatise that sets out to examine the phenomenon of crowds with the rigor of a…

The Civilization of Illiteracy

Mihai Nadin

The work is a sociolinguistic and cultural study that interrogates the decline of conventional literacy in…

Curiosities of Civilization

Andrew Wynter

Andrew Wynter’s Curiosities of Civilization gathers a series of mid‑nineteenth‑century essays originally…

Profile in black and white: A frank portrait of South Carolina

Howard H. Quint

The work is a scholarly examination of race relations in South Carolina, written by Howard H.

Public opinion

Walter Lippmann

Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion is a sweeping study of how societies construct and act upon collective…

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

Various

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 3, is a nineteenth‑century periodical that blends literary commentary…

The Hobo: The Sociology of the Homeless Man

Nels Anderson

The work is a sociological study of Chicago’s homeless population, presented as the opening volume of a…