Cultural Sociology

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    • The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
    • By: Musa al-Gharbi
    • Narrated by: Musa al-Gharbi
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • A powerful critique, We Have Never Been Woke reveals that only by challenging this elite’s self-serving narratives can we hope to address social and economic inequality effectively.

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    • A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
    • By: Jeff Hobbs
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,909 ratings
    • A heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets....

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    • How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
    • By: Joseph Henrich
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 305 ratings
    • Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies....

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    • The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
    • By: Jefferson R. Cowie
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin' Alive is prize-winning historian Jefferson Cowie's remarkable account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s....

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    • How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
    • By: Roger Kimball
    • Narrated by: Raymond Todd
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • While some may think of the 1960s as "the Last Good Time", Kimball paints the decade as a seedbed of excess....

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    • UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers
    • By: Sarah Scoles
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • An anthropological look at the UFO community, told through first-person experiences with researchers in their element as they pursue what they see as a solvable mystery - both terrestrial and cosmic....

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    • Reclaiming Public Faith for the Common Good
    • By: Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Christians have misused Scripture to consolidate power, stoke fears, and defend against enemies. But people who have been hurt by the attacks of Christian nationalism can help us rediscover God's vision for faith in public life....

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    • By: Mark Fleischman, Denise Chatman, Mimi Fleischman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • In the early 80s, Mark Fleischman reopened Studio 54, the world's most glamorous and notorious nightclub, after it was closed down by the State of New York. Ten thousand people showed up that night....

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    • By: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
    • Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8,808 ratings
    • James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....

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    • American Social Policy, 1950 - 1980
    • By: Charles Murray
    • Narrated by: Robert Morris
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 311 ratings
    • This remarkable book demonstrates how the social programs of the 1960s and ’70s had the unintended effect of slowing and even reversing earlier progress in reducing poverty, crime, and discrimination....

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    • 8 Cultural Conflicts That Make Us Who We Are
    • By: Hazel Rose Markus, Alana Conner
    • Narrated by: Hazel Rose Markus, Alana Conner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • As the world gets smaller, hotter, and flatter, people from different cultures are colliding like never before....

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    • How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together
    • By: Michael Morris
    • Narrated by: Michael Morris
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 10-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • A revelatory, paradigm-shifting work from a renowned Columbia professor and “one of the great social and cultural psychologists” (Amy Cuddy) that demystifies our tribal instincts and shows us how to use them to create positive change....

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    • The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny
    • By: Laura Schroff, Alex Tresniowski
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 632 ratings
    • This inspirational New York Times best seller chronicles the lifelong friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy and how both of their lives were changed by what began as one small gesture of kindness....

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    • Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road
    • By: Rob Schmitz
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • Modern Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas, and opportunity....

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    • The Life of Marvin Gaye
    • By: David Ritz
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 935 ratings
    • In this intimate biography of Marvin Gaye, David Ritz provides a candid look at a star and a friend....

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    • A History of Multicultural America
    • By: Ronald Takaki
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 280 ratings
    • Upon its first publication, A Different Mirror was hailed by critics and academics everywhere as a dramatic new retelling of our nation's past.....

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    • The Germans, 1942-2022
    • By: Frank Trentmann
    • Narrated by: Patty Nieman
    • Length: 37 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • A gripping and nuanced history of the German people from World War II to the war in Ukraine, including revealing new primary source material on Germany's transformation....

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    • By: Pamela Paul
    • Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
    • Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • The acclaimed editor of The New York Times Book Review takes listeners on a nostalgic tour of the pre-internet age, offering powerful insights into both the profound and the seemingly trivial things we've lost....

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    • By: Slavoj Žižek
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • Slavoj Žižek's first book is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. In a thrilling tour de force that made his name, he explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society....

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    • A History of Race & Disease
    • By: Arleen Marcia Tuchman
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Who is considered most at risk for diabetes, and why? In this thorough, engaging book, historian Arleen Tuchman examines and critiques how these questions have been answered by both the public and medical communities for over a century in the United States....

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