Sociology Theory

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    • The Functions of Public Welfare
    • By: Cloward Fox Piven
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years....

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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 107 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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    • Improving Decisions About Money, Health, and the Environment
    • By: Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 934 ratings
    • Since the original publication of Nudge more than a decade ago, the title has entered the vocabulary of businesspeople, policy makers, engaged citizens, and consumers everywhere....

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    • Introduction to Sociology. Theories, Effects and Causes that Individuals and Social Groups Experience in Social Dynamics.
    • By: Paul H. Ciccarelli
    • Narrated by: Cliff Weldon
    • Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • Introducing Sociology makes the learning of the foundations of sociology fun and easy in a easy-to-listen book. Through this book, you will gain an understanding of the dynamic forces that shape personalities and socialize people into the larger culture within which we live....

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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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    • 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 211 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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    • By: Thorstein Veblen
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • The controversial American economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen here appropriates Darwin's theory of evolution to analyze the modern industrial system....

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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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    • A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
    • By: Michel Foucault
    • Narrated by: Dave Gillies
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • Madness and Civilization will change the way in which you think about society. Evoking shock, pity, and fascination, it might also make you question the way you think about yourself....

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    • Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness [Expanded Edition]
    • By: Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,266 ratings
    • Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly....

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    • The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides
    • By: Geoffrey L. Cohen
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Discover the secret to flourishing in an age of division: belonging. In a world filled with discord and loneliness, finding harmony and happiness can be difficult....

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    • Why the Lights of the West Are Going Out
    • By: Leonard Peikoff
    • Narrated by: Robin Field
    • Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • .In his groundbreaking and controversial book The DIM Hypothesis, Dr. Leonard Peikoff casts a penetrating new light on the process of human thought....

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    • An Introduction
    • By: Michel Foucault
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic, and political forces that have shaped our attitudes toward sex....

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    • Por qué la ignorancia es más peligrosa que la maldad [Why Ignorance Is More Dangerous Than Evil]
    • By: Jano García
    • Narrated by: Carlos Valdés
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-24
    • Language: Spanish
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    • Un original ensayo político sobre cómo la mediocridad ha conquistado el poder, en el que Jano García desmonta con datos el relato establecido sobre la igualdad, la justicia social, la multiculturalidad o la solidaridad intergeneracional.

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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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    • Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings
    • By: Erving Goffman
    • Narrated by: Richard Powers
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Erving Goffman effectively extends his argument in favor of a diagnosis of deviant behavior which takes account of the whole social situation....

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    • In Search of a Better Life
    • By: Anu Partanen
    • Narrated by: Abby Craden
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,013 ratings
    • In The Nordic Theory of Everything, Partanen compares and contrasts life in the United States with life in the Nordic region, focusing on four key relationships....

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