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The Tinguian: Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe

The Tinguian: Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe

Fay-Cooper Cole

Cole’s study is a scholarly ethnography that situates the Tinguian within a broader sweep of Philippine…

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London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 4

Henry Mayhew

London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 4, is a nineteenth‑century social survey that turns its focus to the…

The foundations of Japan: Notes made during journeys of 6,000 miles in the rural districts as a basis for a sounder knowledge of the Japanese people

The foundations of Japan: Notes made during journeys of 6,000 miles in the rural districts as a basis for a sounder knowledge of the Japanese people

J. W. Robertson Scott

The work is a first‑hand sociological survey of rural Japan, written by the English…

Cover of Ancient society: or, Researches in the lines of human progress from savagery, through barbarism to civilization

Ancient society: or, Researches in the lines of human progress from savagery, through barbarism to civilization

Lewis Henry Morgan

Lewis Henry Morgan’s Ancient Society is a scholarly treatise that maps humanity’s long‑term development from…

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Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7

Edgar Thurston

The volume is a systematic ethnographic reference that catalogues the myriad castes and tribal groups of…

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The history of human marriage

Edward Westermarck

The work is a scholarly treatise on the anthropology of marriage, written by Edward Westermarck and first…

Cover of Sex and Society: Studies in the Social Psychology of Sex

Sex and Society: Studies in the Social Psychology of Sex

William Isaac Thomas

The book is a compiled collection of scholarly articles by William Isaac Thomas that examine how biological…

Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego

Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego

Sigmund Freud

The work is a scholarly essay that treats the emerging field of group psychology as an extension of Freud’s…

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Degeneracy: Its Causes, Signs and Results

Eugene S. Talbot

Degeneracy : Its Causes, Signs and Results is a scholarly treatise that assembles more than two decades of…

Human Traits and their Social Significance

Human Traits and their Social Significance

Irwin Edman

Irwin Edman’s Human Traits and Their Social Significance is a textbook‑style survey of the psychological…

Applied Eugenics

Applied Eugenics

Popenoe, Paul; Johnson, Roswell H.

Applied Eugenics is a scholarly treatise that seeks to merge biological theory with social policy.

Cover of Social Transformations of the Victorian Age: A Survey of Court and Country

Social Transformations of the Victorian Age: A Survey of Court and Country

T. H. S. Escott

The work is a scholarly survey rather than a narrative history, offering a series of observations on the…

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Social organization: A study of the larger mind

Charles Horton Cooley

Social organization: A Study of the Larger Mind is a scholarly treatise in which Charles Horton Cooley…

Negro workaday songs

Negro workaday songs

Odum, Howard Washington; Johnson, Guy Benton

Negro Workaday Songs is the third volume in Howard W. Odum and Guy B.

The sexual question: A scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study

The sexual question: A scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study

Auguste Forel

The work is a scholarly treatise that attempts to map the “sexual question” from every conceivable angle,…

The Sexual Life of the Child

The Sexual Life of the Child

Albert Moll

Albert Moll’s work is a scholarly treatise that seeks to map the origins and development of sexual feelings…

Cover of The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 01 of 12)

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 01 of 12)

James George Frazer

James George Frazer’s The Golden Bough is a scholarly treatise that began as a modest attempt to explain the…

The Truth About Woman

The Truth About Woman

C. Gasquoine Hartley

Hartley’s The Truth About Woman is a polemical study that seeks to articulate a single, overarching…

Cover of Principios e questões de philosophia politica (Vol. 1 of 2)

Principios e questões de philosophia politica (Vol. 1 of 2)

António Cândido

O livro apresenta‑se como um tratado de filosofia política que procura fundar a ciência da política em…

The origin of the family, private property, and the state

The origin of the family, private property, and the state

Friedrich Engels

The work is a scholarly synthesis that brings together the research of 19th‑century thinkers such as Lewis…

Cover of The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy

The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy

Lothrop Stoddard

Lothrop Stoddard’s The Rising Tide of Color Against White World‑Supremacy is a polemical work of…

The Pivot of Civilization

The Pivot of Civilization

Margaret Sanger

The work is a polemical treatise that frames birth control as the decisive issue of modern civilization.

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Human nature and the social order

Charles Horton Cooley

Charles Horton Cooley’s Human Nature and the Social Order is a philosophical treatise that interrogates the…

The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-Earners

The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-Earners

Samuel Peter Orth

The work is a scholarly survey of the development of labor organization in the United States, anchored in a…