Political Sociology

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    • How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
    • By: Leigh Phillips, Michal Rozworski
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 204 ratings
    • An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People's Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters....

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    • By: Hannah Arendt
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable....

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    • Race, Religion, and Lies in America's Weirdest State
    • By: Russell Cobb
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Russell Cobb tells the story of a state rich in natural resources and artistic talent, yet near the bottom in education and social welfare....

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    • A Warning to the Global Middle Class
    • By: Joel Kotkin
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 492 ratings
    • Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism....

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    • How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change
    • By: Cynthia Rayner, Francois Bonnici
    • Narrated by: Zoleka Vundla
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The issues of poverty, inequality, racial injustice, and climate change have never been more pressing or paralyzing. Current approaches to social change, which rely on linear thinking and traditional power dynamics to "solve" social problems, are not helping....

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    • Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
    • By: Eric Hoffer
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards.

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    • Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
    • By: Jane F. McAlevey
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
    • The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. In No Shortcuts, Jane McAlevey argues that progressives can win, but lack the organized power to enact significant change....

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    • Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
    • By: Rebecca Solnit
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 232 ratings
    • Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable....

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    • Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
    • By: Charles Montgomery
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 402 ratings
    • After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time....

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    • The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump
    • By: David Neiwert
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 235 ratings
    • David Neiwert has been tracking extremists for more than two decades. In Alt-America, he provides a deeply researched and authoritative report on the growth of fascism and far-right terrorism....

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    • How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 971 ratings
    • The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation's wealth. Stiglitz draws on his deep understanding of economics to show that growing inequality is not inevitable....

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    • The Birth of the Prison
    • By: Michel Foucault
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 484 ratings
    • This groundbreaking audiobook by Michel Foucault, the most influential philosopher since Sartre, compels us to reevaluate our assumptions about the ensuing reforms in the penal institutions of the West....

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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 318 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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    • Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
    • By: Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • Renowned researchers Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett offer groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offer new ways to achieve it....

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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 59 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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    • Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States
    • By: Leah Cardamore Stokes
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Series: Studies in Postwar American Political Development Series
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy. As Leah Stokes shows in Short Circuiting Policy, however, that policy did not lead to momentum in Texas....

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    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,291 ratings
    • The role of intellectuals in racial strife is here explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light....

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