Books of the Century

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Weber, Max
Mills, Charles Wright
Merton, Robert K.
Weber, M.
Berger, P.L. and Luckmann, T.

Bourdieu, Pierre

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Elias, Norbert
Habermas, Jrgen
Parsons, Talcott
Goffman, Erving
Mead, George Herbert
Parsons, Talcott
Durkheim, Emile
Giddens, Anthony
Wallerstein, Immanuel
Foucault, Michel
Kuhn, Thomas S.
Simmel, Georg
Beck, Ulrich
Braverman, Harry
Adorno, Theodor W. and
Horkheimer, Max
Gramsci, Antonio
Coleman, James Samuel
Habermas, Jrgen

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Moore, B.

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Polanyi, Karl
Blau, Peter Michael and Duncan,
Otis Dudley
Gouldner, Alvin W.
Luhmann, Niklas
Mannheim, Karl
Becker, Howard S.
Marx, Karl
Olson, Mancur
Durkheim, Emile
Durkheim, Emile
Garfinkel, Harold
Goffman, Erving
Lipset, Seymour Martin
Mills, Charles Wright
Bourdieu, Pierre
Cardoso, Fernando Henrique

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Economy and Society
The Sociological Imagination
Social Theory and Social Structure
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
The Social Construction of Reality
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of
Taste
The Civilizing Process
The Theory of Communicative Action
The Structure of Social Action
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Mind, Self and Society
The Social System
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
The Constitution of Society
The Modern World-System
Discipline and Punish : the Birth of the Prison
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Sociology
Risk Society
Labour and Monopoly Capital

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Dialectic of Enlightenment

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Prison Notebooks
Foundations of Social Theory
Knowledge and Human Interests
The Social Origins of Dictatorship and
Democracy
The Great Transformation

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The American Occup

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The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology

Social Systems
Ideology and Utopia
Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance
Capital. A Critique of Political Economy
The Logic Collective Action
The Division of Labor in Society
The Rules of Sociological Method
Studies in Ethnomethodology
Asylums
Political Man
The Power Elite
The Logic of Practice
Dependency and Development in Latin America

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and, Faletto, Enzo

Dahrendorf, R.
Giddens, Anthony
Goffman, Erving
Kanter, R.M.
Schtz, Alfred
Berger, Peter L.
Bourdieu, Pierre and Passeron,
Jean-Claude
Etzioni, Amitai
Glaser, Barney G. and Strauss,
Anselm L.

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Habermas, J.

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Sorokin, Pitirim A.
Touraine, A.
Weber, Max
Weber, Max
Arendt, Hannah
Boudon, Raymond
Braudel, Fernand
Durkheim, Emile
Geertz, Clifford
Giddens, Anthony
Janowitz, Morris
Lazarsfeld, Paul Felix and
Rosenberg, Morris
Lukcs, Georg
Mies, Maria
Nisbet, Robert A.
Palmer Thompson, Eric
Riesman, David
Schtz, Alfred
Simmel, Georg
Whyte, William Foote
Alexander, Jeffrey C.
Althusser, L.
Anderson, Benedict
Arendt, Hannah
Baumann, Zygmunt
Beauvoir, Simone de
Benedict, Ruth

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Blumer, Herbert

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Boudon, Raymond
Bourdieu, Pierre
Castells, Manuel
Crozier, Michel J.
Crozier, Michel J. and Friedberg,
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Fanon, Frantz
Friedmann, G.
Gans, Herbert J.
Gerth, H.H. and Mills, Ch.W.

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Class and Class Conflict in an Industrial Society

The Consequences of Modernity
Stigma
Men and Women of the Corporation
The Phenomenology of the Social World
Invitation to Sociology

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Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture 6

The Active Society

The Discovery of Grounded Theory

The Structural Transformation of the Public

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Social and Cultural Dynamics
Production de la societe
Sociology of Religion
The Methodology of the Social Sciences
The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Logic of Social Action
Civilization and Capitalism
The Suicide
The Interpretation of Cultures
Sociology
The Professional Soldier

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The Language of Social Research

History and Class Consciousness

Patriarchy and Accumulation on World Scale
The Sociological Tradition
The Making English Labour Class
The Lonely Crowd
Collected Papers
The Philosophy of Money
Street Corner Society
Theoretical Logic in Sociology
Reading Capital
Imagined Communities
The Human Condition
Postmodern Ethics
The Second Sex
Patterns of Culture
Symbolic Interactionism. Perspective and
Method
The Unintended Consequences of Social Action
Outline of a Theory Practice
The Urban Question
The Bureaucratic Phenomenon

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Actors and Systems

The Wretched of the Earth

Problemes humains du machinisme industriel
The Urban Villagers
From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology

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Giddens, Anthony
Giddens, Anthony
Goffman, Erving
Hughes, Everett Charrington
Mann, Michael
Marx, Karl
Mauss, Marcel
Popper, Karl R.
Poulantzas, Nicos
Sorokin, Pitirim A.
Thomas, William Isaac and
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Znaniecki, Florian
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New Rules of the Sociological Method

Modernity and Self-Identity
Frame Analysis
The Sociological Eye
The Sources of Social Power
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1
The Gift
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Political Power and Social Class
Social and Cultural Mobility

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The Polish Peasant in Europe and America

Philosophical Investigations