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Books That Sociology Graduate Students Should Read

Adams, Bert: The Family: A Sociological Interpretation
Aron, Raymond: Main Currents in Sociological Thought (v. 1 & 2)
Becker, Howard S.: The Outsiders
Bellah, Robert, et al.: Writing for Social Scientists; Habits of the Heart
Bendix, Reinhard: Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait
Berger, Peter: Invitation to Sociology
Blau, Peter: Exchange and Power in Social Life; Crosscutting Social Circles
Braverman, Harry: Labor and Monopoly Capital
Bruce, J. Biddle: Role Theory: Expectations, Identities and Behaviors
Carr: The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939
Cole, Stephen: The Sociological Method
Coser, Lewis: The Functions of Social Conflict; The Pleasures of Sociology
Dahrendorf, Ralf: Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society
de Tocqueville, Alexis: Democracy in America
Duncan, Otis Dudley: The American Occupational Structure
Durkheim, Emile: The Elementary Forms of Religious Life; The Division of Labor in Society Suicide
Freud, Sigmund: Civilization and Its Discontents
Gans, Herbert: The Urban Villagers
Gerth, H.H. and C. Wright Mills: From Max Weber
Giddens, Anthony: Capitalism and Modern Social Theory; The Class Structure of the Advanced Societies
Goffman, Erving: Interaction Ritual; Stigma; The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Gould, Stephen J.: The Mismeasure of Man
Hall, Richard: Dimensions of Work
Hamilton, P.: Talcott Parsons
Hawley, Amos: Urban Society
Homans, George C.: The Human Group; Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms
Horkheimer and Adorno: Aspects of Sociology
Issawi, Charles: An Arab Philosophy of History (selections from the works of Ibn Khaldun)
Kanter, Rosabeth: Men and Women of the Corporation
Kaplan, Abraham: The Conduct of Inquiry
Katz, Elihu and Paul Lazarsfeld: Personal Influence
Lenski, Gerhard: Power and Privilege
Lenski, Jean: Human Societies
Liebow, Elliot: Talley's Corner
Lindzey, Gardner and Elliot Aronson (eds): Handbook of Social Psychology (v 1 & 2)
Lipset, Seymour Martin, James Coleman, and Martin Trow: Union Democracy
Luckmann, Thomas: The Social Construction of Reality
Madge, John: The Origins of Scientific Sociology
Mannheim, Karl: Ideology and Utopia
Marx, Karl: Selected Writings (ed by Tom Bottomore) and Friedrich Engels: German Ideology
Mead, George Herbert: Mind, Self, and Society
Merton, Robert K.: Social Theory and Social Structure
Michels, Robert: Political Parties
Milgram, Stanley: Obedience and Authority
Miliband, Ralph: The State in Capitalist Society
Mills, C. Wright: The Power Elite; The Sociological Imagination
Olson, Mancur: The Logic of Collective Action
Parenti, Michael: Power and the Powerless
Pfuetz, Paul E.: Self, Society, Existence
Riesman, David: The Lonely Crowd
Rosenberg, Morris: The Logic of Survey Analysis
Rubin, Lillian: Worlds of Pain
SAS Institute: SAS Manual
Shaffer, Stebbins, and Turowetz: Fieldwork Experience
Simmel, Georg: The Sociology of Georg Simmel
Turner, Ralph (ed): Social Psychology: Sociological Perspectives
Weber, Max: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Whyte, William Foote: Street Corner Society
Wilson, William J.: The Declining Significance of Race The Truly Disadvantaged
Zetterberg, Hans: On Theory and Verification in Sociology

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