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.

• How the Other Half Lives Jacob A. Riis
• The Red Record Ida B. Wells-Barnett
• The Future of the American Negro Booker T. Washington
• Introduction to the Science of Sociology Park & Burgess
• The American Credo Mencken & Nathan
• Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases Ida B. Wells-Barnett
• They Who Knock at Our Gates Mary Antin
• Philosophy and the Social Problem Will Durant
• The School and Society John Dewey
• The Condition of the Working-Class in England Friedrich Engels
• The Cry for Justice Unknown
• Folkways William Graham Sumner
• Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Unknown
• Fools of Fortune John Philip Quinn
• Sinks of London Laid Open Unknown
• Human Nature and the Social Order Charles Horton Cooley
• A History of Social Thought Emory S. Bogardus
• Twenty Years at Hull House Jane Addams
• How to Observe: Morals and Manners Harriet Martineau
• Social Civics Munro & Ozanne
• The People of the Abyss Jack London
• The Americans Hugo Münsterberg
• The City Burgess & McKenzie Park
• Woman Under Socialism August Bebel
• A General View of Positivism Auguste Comte
• The Acquisitive Society R. H. Tawney
• The White Slaves of England John C. Cobden
• Village Life in China Arthur H. Smith
• Mankind in the Making H. G. Wells
• The Non-religion of the Future Jean-Marie Guyau
• The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation Thorstein Veblen
• The Home: Its Work and Influence Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Proposed Roads to Freedom Bertrand Russell
• Working With the Working Woman Cornelia Stratton Parker
• Curiosities of Civilization Andrew Wynter
• The Hobo Nels Anderson
• Social Organization Charles Horton Cooley
• The Promise of American Life Herbert Croly
• The New Society Walther Rathenau
• A History of the Irish Poor Law George Nicholls
• A Preface to Morals Walter Lippmann
• The Negro Problem Unknown
• In Darkest England, and the Way Out William Booth
• Home Life in Tokyo Jukichi Inouye
• Cannibals All! George Fitzhugh
• The Condition of the Colored People of the United States Martin Robison Delany
• The Social Significance of the Modern Drama Emma Goldman
• Social Transformations of the Victorian Age T. H. S. Escott
• The People of Palestine Elihu Grant
• What to Do? Leo Tolstoy
• The Kiss and Its History Kristoffer Nyrop
• The Land of Contrasts James F. Muirhead
• Negro Workaday Songs Odum & Johnson
• Americans by Choice John Palmer Gavit
• Problems in American Democracy Thames Williamson
• Humanity in the City E. H. Chapin
• The American Country Girl Martha Foote Crow
• The Child in the Midst Mary Schauffler Platt
• The Battle with the Slum Jacob A. Riis
• The Future in America H. G. Wells
• The Right to Be Lazy Paul Lafargue
• The Mind of Primitive Man Franz Boas
• The Hindoos as They Are Shib Chunder Bose
• Our Foreigners Samuel P. Orth
• The Man-Made World Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Castes in India B. R. Ambedkar
• Fruits of Philosophy Charles Knowlton
• Crowds Gerald Stanley Lee
• Following the Color Line Ray Stannard Baker
• New Worlds for Old H. G. Wells
• Woman and Labour Olive Schreiner
• The Unfinished Programme of Democracy Richard Roberts
• Domestic Service Lucy Maynard Salmon
• The Natives of British Central Africa Alice Werner
• The Social Principles of Jesus Walter Rauschenbusch
• The Impending Crisis of the South Hinton Rowan Helper
• The Evolution of States J. M. Robertson
• Anarchism and Socialism G. V. Plekhanov
• The New State Mary Parker Follett
• Our Business Civilization James Truslow Adams
• Modern Religious Cults and Movements Gaius Glenn Atkins
• The State Franz Oppenheimer
• An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans Lydia Maria Child
• Not Guilty: A Defence of the Bottom Dog Robert Blatchford
• The Passing of the Idle Rich Frederick Townsend Martin
• The Family Among the Australian Aborigines Bronislaw Malinowski
• The Intermediate Sex Edward Carpenter
• Concerning Women Suzanne La Follette
• The Children of the Poor Jacob A. Riis
• The House on Henry Street Lillian D. Wald
• The Woman Who Toils Van Vorst & Van Vorst
• The Mind in the Making James Harvey Robinson
• The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets Jane Addams
• An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace Thorstein Veblen
• The Secrets of the Great City James D. McCabe
• “Broke,” the Man Without the Dime Edwin A. Brown
• About My Father’s Business Thomas Archer
• Making Both Ends Meet Wyatt & Clark
• The Harim and the Purdah Elizabeth Cooper
• War of the Classes Jack London
• The Man Farthest Down Booker T. Washington
• Newer Ideals of Peace Jane Addams
• What Eight Million Women Want Rheta Childe Dorr
• The Intelligence of Woman W. L. George
• Through Afro-America William Archer
• Religion in Japan George A. Cobbold
• When Africa Awakes Hubert H. Harrison
• The Abominations of Modern Society T. De Witt Talmage
• Mystic London Charles Maurice Davies
• The New Christianity Salem Goldworth Bland
• Regeneration H. Rider Haggard
• The Armies of Labor Samuel Peter Orth
• South America To-day Georges Clemenceau
• Social Process Charles Horton Cooley
• Motherhood and the Relationships of the Sexes C. Gasquoine Hartley
• The Social Work of the Salvation Army Edwin Gifford Lamb
• Quaker Hill Warren H. Wilson
• Sweated Industry and the Minimum Wage Clementina Black
• French and English Philip Gilbert Hamerton
• The Decay and the Restoration of Civilization Albert Schweitzer
• Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure Edward Carpenter
• Negro Migration During the War Emmett J. Scott
• Outspoken Essays W. R. Inge
• Third Class in Indian Railways Mahatma Gandhi
• The Gypsy’s Parson George Hall
• The Bitter Cry of the Children John Spargo
• Maternity: Letters from Working-Women Unknown
• Social Forces in England and America H. G. Wells
• The Communistic Societies of the United States Charles Nordhoff
• Time and Tide John Ruskin
• Japan and the California Problem T. Iyenaga and Kennosuke Sato
• Women of India Otto Rothfield
• How the Poor Live; and, Horrible London George R. Sims
• Barotseland D. E. C. Stirke
• Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History Antonio Labriola
• The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies R. G. Latham
• The Man-Eaters and Other Odd People Mayne Reid
• The Dangerous Classes of New York Charles Loring Brace
• Communism and Christianism William Montgomery Brown
• Marriage, As It Was, As It Is, and As It Should Be Annie Besant
• The Salvaging of Civilization H. G. Wells
• Aliens or Americans? Howard B. Grose
• East London Walter Besant
• Everybody’s Business Is Nobody’s Business Daniel Defoe
• The Vagrancy Problem William Harbutt Dawson
• Socialism and Modern Science Enrico Ferri
• The Conservation of Races W. E. B. Du Bois
• Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia Northcote W. Thomas
• Icarus, or the Future of Science Bertrand Russell
• Human Work Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Aristocracy and Evolution W. H. Mallock
• The Men of the Merchant Service Frank T. Bullen
• Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley
• Labor and Freedom Eugene V. Debs
• Civics: As Applied Sociology Patrick Geddes
• Profile in Black and White Howard H. Quint
• Broken Homes Joanna C. Colcord
• Misinforming a Nation Willard Huntington Wright
• New Homes for Old Sophonisba P. Breckinridge
• The Rise, Progress, and Phases of Human Slavery James Bronterre O’Brien
• Round About a Pound a Week Maud Pember Reeves
• Culture & Ethnology Robert H. Lowie
• What Is Coming? H. G. Wells
• Statement of the Provision for the Poor Nassau William Senior
• Betting & Gambling B. Seebohm Rowntree
• Kinship and Social Organisation W. H. R. Rivers
• Romany Life Frank Cuttriss
• The Workers: The West Walter A. Wyckoff
• The Crime of Caste in Our Country Benjamin Rush Davenport
• The Seven Curses of London James Greenwood
• Letters to Judd Upton Sinclair
• Indo-China and Its Primitive People Henry Baudesson
• Negro Life in New York’s Harlem Wallace Thurman
• Three Addresses on the Relations of White and Colored People Frederick Douglass
• Sidelights on Chinese Life John Macgowan
• A Hundred Years Hence T. Baron Russell
• Divorce versus Democracy G. K. Chesterton
• These Are the British Drew Middleton
• The Condition of England C. F. G. Masterman
• House Property and Its Management Octavia Hill
• Some Causes of the Prevailing Discontent Charles Dudley Warner
• Good Housing That Pays Fullerton L. Waldo
• The Alien Invasion W. H. Wilkins
• Race and Nationality Franz Boas
• Black and White T. Thomas Fortune
• White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor Louis Albert Banks
• Creative Impulse in Industry Helen Marot