Sociology

The Group Mind: A Sketch of the Principles of Collective Psychology With Some Attempt to Apply Them to the Interpretation of National Life and Character

William McDougall

William McDougall’s work is a scholarly attempt to map the mental life of groups onto the larger canvas of…

Philosophy and the Social Problem

Will Durant

Fields, factories and workshops: or, Industry combined with agriculture and brain work with manual work

Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz

Fields, Factories and Workshops is a scholarly treatise that blends economic analysis with a sweeping survey…

The Promise of American Life

Herbert David Croly

Herbert David Croley’s The Promise of American Life is a nonfiction study that situates the United States…

The Battle with the Slum

Jacob A. Riis

Jacob A. Riis’s The Battle with the Slum is a nonfiction follow‑up to his groundbreaking 1889 expose How the…

Primitive Love and Love-Stories

Henry T. Finck

The work is a scholarly survey that treats love as an evolutionary and cultural phenomenon, beginning with a…

The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It

Hinton Rowan Helper

The work is a polemical treatise on the institution of slavery, written in 1857 by Hinton Rowan Helper, a…

Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction

John Davenport

John Davenport’s work is a three‑part scholarly treatise that treats the “powers of reproduction” as a…

Socialism and Democracy in Europe

Samuel Peter Orth

Samuel P. Orth’s Socialism and Democracy in Europe is a scholarly survey of the socialist movement as it…

Democracy and Social Ethics

Jane Addams

Newer ideals of peace

Jane Addams

The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work

Virginia Penny

Virginia Penny’s work is a practical handbook rather than a philosophical treatise.

The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind

Gobineau, Arthur, comte de

The work is a nineteenth‑century treatise that seeks to map the “moral and intellectual diversity of races”…

What eight million women want

Rheta Childe Dorr

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, December 1898 Volume LIV, No. 2, December 1898

Various

Habits and men, with remnants of record touching the makers of both

Dr. Doran

The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother

George H. Napheys

Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11

Modern Religious Cults and Movements

Gaius Glenn Atkins

Society in America, Volume 1 (of 2)

Harriet Martineau

How to be Happy Though Married: Being a Handbook to Marriage

E. J. Hardy

Fruits of Philosophy: A Treatise on the Population Question

Charles Knowlton

"About My Father's Business": Work Amidst the Sick, the Sad, and the Sorrowing

Thomas Archer

The Man-Made World; Or, Our Androcentric Culture

Charlotte Perkins Gilman