Sociology Reading List
CC Alum
Programming Skills for Data Science (Freeman)
The Mindful Elite: Mobilizing from the Inside Out (Kucinskas)
Classics & Theory
Distinction (Bourdieu)
Black Feminist Thought (Collins)
The Souls of Black Folks (Du Bois)
Ain't No Makin' It (McLeod)
Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology (Morris)
Black Marxism: The Making of a Black Radical Tradition (Robinson)
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Weber)
Class
$2 a Day (Edin)
Nickled and Dimed (Ehrenreich)
Crime & Punishment
Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago (Ralph)
Punished: Policing in the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (Rios)
Education
Privilege (Khan)
Savage Inequalities (Kozol)
Gender & Sexuality
Dude You're a Fag (Pascoe)
Housing & Urban Studies
Evicted (Desmond)
Sidewalk (Duneier)
A Haven and a Hell: The Ghetto in Black America (Freeman)
The Color of Law (Rothstein)
The Road to Resegregation: Northern California and the Failure of Politics (Schafran)
Down, Out, and Under Arrest (Stuart)
Manufactured Insecurity: Mobile Home Parks and Americans' Tenuous Right to Place (Sullivan)
Immigration
Immigrant Families (Menjivar, Schmalzbauer, & Abrego)
Brokered Boundaries: Creating Immigrant Identity in Anti-Immigrant Times (Massey & Sanchez)
Media & Culture
Amusing Ourselves to Death (Postman)
Bowling Alone (Putnam)
Race & Privilege
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Anderson)
Racism without Racists (Bonilla-Silva)
The Case for Reparations (Coates)
The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker (Cramer)
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (DiAngelo)
White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America (Hagerman)
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (Hochschild)
Unequal Childhoods (Lareau)
Resistance and Social Movements
Resistance through Rituals (Hall & Jefferon)
Domination and the Arts of Resistance (Scott)
Surviving State Terror: Women's Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina (Sutton)