Cultural Sociology

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Steve Bruce
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Steve Bruce discusses the continuing arguments for social egalitarianism, considering issues such as gay marriage, women in combat roles, and the 2010 Equality Act to debunk contemporary arguments against parity....

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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 11 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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    • 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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    • 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 303 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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    • 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 310 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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    • 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 56 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 7 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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    • 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 8,798 ratings
    • James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....

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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 2,906 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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    • 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 48 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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    • 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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    • By: John Branch
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 453 ratings
    • New York Times reporter and best-selling author John Branch takes listeners to the magnificent red soil and rocky arroyos of southern Utah, where the Wright family of Smith Mesa have for generations raised cattle and world-champion saddle-bronc riders....

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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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    • The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe
    • By: Thomas Cahill
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Series: The Hinges of History
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 277 ratings
    • After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science....

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    • Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System
    • By: Jeff Hobbs
    • Narrated by: George Newbern, Landon Woodson, Aven Shore, Andre Bellido
    • Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • From the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace comes a timely, insightful, and groundbreaking look at the school-to-prison pipeline and life in the juvenile “justice” system....

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    • Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America
    • By: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 318 ratings
    • At the 40th anniversary of King's assassination, acclaimed public intellectual Michael Eric Dyson reevaluates the fate of America, specifically Black America, since that date....

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