Most Important Books in Sociology (Theme-wise)

Following is the theme-wise list of Popular and useful books in different courses of Sociology.

📚 Originals: Most Popular (Must Read)

S. No.Books DetailBuy (India)Buy (Worldwide)
1The Sociological Imagination (C. Wright Mills)LinkLink
2Suicide (Émile Durkheim)LinkLink
3The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Max Weber)LinkLink
4The Social Construction of Reality (Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann)LinkLink
5Distinction (Pierre Bourdieu)LinkLink
6The Civilizing Process (Norbert Elias)LinkLink
7The Lonely Crowd (David Riesman)LinkLink
8Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Matthew Desmond)LinkLink
9The Second Shift (Arlie Russell Hochschild)LinkLink
10The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Erving Goffman)LinkLink

💡 Basic Concepts

S. No.Books DetailBuy (India)Buy (Worldwide)
1Sociological Imagination (Mills)LinkLink
2Society (MacIver & Page)LinkLink
3Sociology (Haralambous)LinkLink
4What is Sociology? (Alex Inkles)LinkLink
5Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective (Peter L. Berger)LinkLink
6Sociology: A Guide to Problems and Literature (T.B. Bottomore)LinkLink

🧠 Theory and Thinkers

S. No.Books DetailBuy (India)Buy (Worldwide)
1Sociological Theory (George Ritzer)LinkLink
2Sociological Thought (Abraham & Morgan)LinkLink
3Master of Sociological Thought (Lewis Coser)LinkLink
4The Sociological Tradition (Robert A. Nisbet)LinkLink
5A History of Sociological Analysis (Tom Bottomore & Robert Nisbet)LinkLink
6The Structure of Sociological Theory (Jonathan Turner)LinkLink

🌾 Rural Sociology

S. No.Books DetailBuy (India)Buy (Worldwide)
1Rural People and Communities in the 21st Century: Resilience and Transformation (David L. Brown & Kai A. Schafft)LinkLink
2Rural Sociology (S.L. Doshi)LinkLink

🏙️ Urban Sociology

S. No.Books DetailBuy (India)Buy (Worldwide)
1The Urban Sociological Imagination (Ray Hutchison & Mark Gottdiener)LinkLink
2The City Reader (Richard T. LeGates & Frederic Stout)LinkLink
3Urban Sociology: Images and Structure (William G. Flanagan)LinkLink
4The Urban Question: A Marxist Approach (Manuel Castells)LinkLink
5The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Jane Jacobs)LinkLink

🙏 Sociology of Religion

S. No.Books DetailBuy (India)Buy (Worldwide)
1Sociology of Religion: A Substantive and Transdisciplinary Approach (Kevin J. Christiano, William H. Swatos Jr., Peter Kivisto)LinkLink
2The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion (Peter L. Berge)LinkLink
3Sociology of Religion (Malcolm B. Hamilton)LinkLink
4Religion in Sociological Perspective (Keith A. Roberts & David Yamane)LinkLink
5Religion and Society in India (André Béteille)LinkLink

🇮🇳 Society in India

S. No.Books DetailBuy (India)Buy (Worldwide)
1Caste in Modern India and Other Essays (M. N. Srinivas)LinkLink
2India: Social Structure (André Béteille)LinkLink
3Religion and Society among the Coorgs of South India (M. N. Srinivas)LinkLink
4The Structure of Indian Society (A. R. Desai)LinkLink
5Social Change in Modern India (M. N. Srinivas)LinkLink
6Dominance and State Power in Modern India: Decline of a Social Order (Frankel & Rao (eds.))LinkLink
7Modernity and Ethnic Processes in India (Yogendra Singh)LinkLink
8Indian Society: Structure and Change (N. Jayaram)LinkLink
9Indian Society: Themes and Social Issues (Rajendra K. Sharma)LinkLink
10Indian Society (S.C. Dube)LinkLink
11Indian Society and Culture (Nadeem Hasnain)LinkLink
12Society in India (Ram Ahuja)LinkLink
13Understanding Indian Society: Past and Present (B. S. Baviskar & Tulsi Patel (eds.))LinkLink

💖 Gender & Society

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🌐 Others

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