The Book list...

...philosophy and methodology.

• John R. Searle - The Construction of Social Reality (amazon - pdf)
• Andrew Abbott - Methods of Discovery: Heuristics for the Social Sciences (amazon - pdf)
• Kenneth Prewitt - What Is Your Race?: The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans (amazon)

...for the qualitatively minded.

• Edward C. Banfield - Moral Basis of a Backward Society (amazon)
• Alice Goffman - On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City (amazon - epub)

...for the economists among you.

• Wolfgang Streeck - Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism (amazon - epub)
• Greta R. Krippner - Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance (amazon - pdf)
• Karl Polanyi - The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (amazon - pdf)

...for the historians.

• Luciano Pellicani - The Genesis of Capitalism and the Origins of Modernity (amazon)

...for the aspiring sociologist.

• John Goldthorpe - On Sociology (amazon)
• Frankfurt Institute for Social Research - Aspects of Sociology (amazon - pdf)

...sociological novels.

• Michael Young - The Rise of the Meritocracy (amazon - pdf)
• Didier Eribon - Returning to Reims (amazon)

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