Political Sociology

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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 85 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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    • The Origins of Our Discontents
    • By: Isabel Wilkerson
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20,598 ratings
    • The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions....

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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 229 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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    • 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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    • Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
    • By: Robert B. Reich
    • Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,071 ratings
    • From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change....

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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 41 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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    • What's Causing It, and What Comes Next?
    • By: Ronald F. Inglehart
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Utilizing a massive global database, Inglehart analyzes the conditions under which religiosity collapses, and explores its implications for the future....

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    • A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
    • By: J. Anthony Lukas
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 35 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the best-selling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families....

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    • How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
    • By: Virginia Eubanks
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The audiobook is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories....

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    • Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
    • By: Bill Bishop, Robert G. Cushing
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • Americans have been sorting themselves into alarmingly homogeneous communities - not by region or by state but by city and even neighborhood....

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    • Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
    • By: Dean Spade
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • This book is about mutual aid: why it is so important, what it looks like, and how to do it. It provides a grassroots theory of mutual aid, describes how mutual aid is a crucial part of powerful movements for social justice, and offers concrete tools for organizing....

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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 489 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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    • 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 378 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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    • How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
    • By: Katharina Pistor
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Capital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere wealth into an asset that automatically creates more wealth? Find out....

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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 106 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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    • By: J.M. Berger
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, J. M. Berger offers a nuanced introduction to extremist movements, explaining what extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence....

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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 480 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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    • 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 200 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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