Sociology

How societies hold together and come apart — the founders of the discipline, the reformers who counted the poor, and the reporters who went to live among them.

• “Broke,” the Man Without the Dime Edwin A. Brown
• A General View of Positivism Auguste Comte
• A History of Social Thought Emory S. Bogardus
• A Preface to Morals Walter Lippmann
• About My Father’s Business Thomas Archer
• An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans Lydia Maria Child
• An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace Thorstein Veblen
• Anarchism and Socialism G. V. Plekhanov
• Cannibals All! George Fitzhugh
• Castes in India B. R. Ambedkar
• Civics: As Applied Sociology Patrick Geddes
• Concerning Women Suzanne La Follette
• Creative Impulse in Industry Helen Marot
• Crowds Gerald Stanley Lee
• Curiosities of Civilization Andrew Wynter
• Domestic Service Lucy Maynard Salmon
• East London Walter Besant
• Folkways William Graham Sumner
• Following the Color Line Ray Stannard Baker
• Fruits of Philosophy Charles Knowlton
• Home Life in Tokyo Jukichi Inouye
• How the Other Half Lives Jacob A. Riis
• How the Poor Live; and, Horrible London George R. Sims
• How to Observe: Morals and Manners Harriet Martineau
• Human Nature and the Social Order Charles Horton Cooley
• In Darkest England, and the Way Out William Booth
• Introduction to the Science of Sociology Park & Burgess
• Making Both Ends Meet Wyatt & Clark
• Mankind in the Making H. G. Wells
• Marriage, As It Was, As It Is, and As It Should Be Annie Besant
• Maternity: Letters from Working-Women Unknown
• Misinforming a Nation Willard Huntington Wright
• Modern Religious Cults and Movements Gaius Glenn Atkins
• Motherhood and the Relationships of the Sexes C. Gasquoine Hartley
• Mystic London Charles Maurice Davies
• Negro Migration During the War Emmett J. Scott
• Negro Workaday Songs Odum & Johnson
• New Worlds for Old H. G. Wells
• Newer Ideals of Peace Jane Addams
• Not Guilty: A Defence of the Bottom Dog Robert Blatchford
• Our Business Civilization James Truslow Adams
• Outspoken Essays W. R. Inge
• Philosophy and the Social Problem Will Durant
• Problems in American Democracy Thames Williamson
• Proposed Roads to Freedom Bertrand Russell
• Quaker Hill Warren H. Wilson
• Religion in Japan George A. Cobbold
• Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley
• Sinks of London Laid Open Unknown
• Social Civics Munro & Ozanne
• Social Organization Charles Horton Cooley
• Social Transformations of the Victorian Age T. H. S. Escott
• Socialism and Modern Science Enrico Ferri
• South America To-day Georges Clemenceau
• Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases Ida B. Wells-Barnett
• Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Unknown
• The Abominations of Modern Society T. De Witt Talmage
• The Acquisitive Society R. H. Tawney
• The American Country Girl Martha Foote Crow
• The American Credo Mencken & Nathan
• The Americans Hugo Münsterberg
• The Armies of Labor Samuel Peter Orth
• The Battle with the Slum Jacob A. Riis
• The Bitter Cry of the Children John Spargo
• The Child in the Midst Mary Schauffler Platt
• The Children of the Poor Jacob A. Riis
• The City Burgess & McKenzie Park
• The Communistic Societies of the United States Charles Nordhoff
• The Condition of the Colored People of the United States Martin Robison Delany
• The Condition of the Working-Class in England Friedrich Engels
• The Cry for Justice Unknown
• The Evolution of States J. M. Robertson
• The Family Among the Australian Aborigines Bronislaw Malinowski
• The Future in America H. G. Wells
• The Future of the American Negro Booker T. Washington
• The Harim and the Purdah Elizabeth Cooper
• The Hindoos as They Are Shib Chunder Bose
• The Hobo Nels Anderson
• The Home: Its Work and Influence Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The House on Henry Street Lillian D. Wald
• The Impending Crisis of the South Hinton Rowan Helper
• The Intelligence of Woman W. L. George
• The Intermediate Sex Edward Carpenter
• The Kiss and Its History Kristoffer Nyrop
• The Land of Contrasts James F. Muirhead
• The Man Farthest Down Booker T. Washington
• The Man-Made World Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Mind in the Making James Harvey Robinson
• The Mind of Primitive Man Franz Boas
• The Negro Problem Unknown
• The New Christianity Salem Goldworth Bland
• The New Society Walther Rathenau
• The New State Mary Parker Follett
• The Non-religion of the Future Jean-Marie Guyau
• The Passing of the Idle Rich Frederick Townsend Martin
• The People of Palestine Elihu Grant
• The People of the Abyss Jack London
• The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation Thorstein Veblen
• The Promise of American Life Herbert Croly
• The Red Record Ida B. Wells-Barnett
• The Right to Be Lazy Paul Lafargue
• The School and Society John Dewey
• The Secrets of the Great City James D. McCabe
• The Social Principles of Jesus Walter Rauschenbusch
• The Social Significance of the Modern Drama Emma Goldman
• The Social Work of the Salvation Army Edwin Gifford Lamb
• The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets Jane Addams
• The State Franz Oppenheimer
• The Unfinished Programme of Democracy Richard Roberts
• The White Slaves of England John C. Cobden
• The Woman Who Toils Van Vorst & Van Vorst
• They Who Knock at Our Gates Mary Antin
• Third Class in Indian Railways Mahatma Gandhi
• Through Afro-America William Archer
• Twenty Years at Hull House Jane Addams
• Village Life in China Arthur H. Smith
• War of the Classes Jack London
• What Eight Million Women Want Rheta Childe Dorr
• What Is Coming? H. G. Wells
• What to Do? Leo Tolstoy
• When Africa Awakes Hubert H. Harrison
• White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor Louis Albert Banks
• Woman and Labour Olive Schreiner
• Woman Under Socialism August Bebel
• Women of India Otto Rothfield
• Working With the Working Woman Cornelia Stratton Parker