According to ISA – International Sociological Association the top 100 most important and influential books are listed below.
In 1998 at the ISA World Congress of Sociology held in Montreal, Canada the Programme Committee had carried out a survey among its members in order to identify ten most influential books for sociologists. ISA members were asked to list five books published in the twentieth century which were most influential in their work as sociologists. 16% of ISA members (455 out of 2785) participated in the survey. This is the collected results of the survey.
1. Max Weber Economy and Society
The absolute number one according to ISA members. Twenty pro cent ranked it among the top ten books. Key concepts are modern bureaucracy, charismatic authority, modern Capitalism, and goal-rational social action. The overall thesis of this two volume work concerns the de-mystification and rationalization of our world, the famous iron cage thesis.2. Charles Wright Mills Sociological Imagination
In a normative account Mills describes the need for what he calls the sociological imagination. Without it we are unable to understand the society in which we live. We are also unable to understand ourself and our place and role within society.
3. Robert K. Merton Social Theory and Social Structure
In a critique and revision of the sociological functionalist theory of Talcott Parsons Robert K. Merton sought to pave the way for a less abstract set of theories which he termed "theories of the middle range". He tried to construct a paradigm that would act as a guide for fruitful functional analysis.4. Max Weber The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
In this seminal work Weber argues that the changing of values amongst certain protestant groupings especially Calvinists leads to a certain behavior that can be characterized as capitalist. The values of capitalism can be found in Benjamin Franklins pamphlet Advise to a Young Tradesman according to Weber.
5. Peter L. Berger & Thomas Luckmann The Social Construction of Reality
The social reality is a social construct. Society is a human product but it also has a objective reality in itself. Berger and Luckmann tries to formulate their sociology as a sociology of knowledge. We must try to understand the processes whereby knowledge is created, transferred and ultimately underpins our conception of reality.The other candidates are:
6. Bourdieu, Pierre Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
7. Elias, Norbert The Civilizing Process
8. Habermas, Jürgen The Theory of Communicative Action
9. Parsons, Talcott Structure of Social Action
10.Goffman, Erving The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
11. Mead, George Herbert Mind, Self and Society
12. Parsons, Talcott The Social System
13. Durkheim, Emile The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
14. Giddens, Anthony The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration
15. Wallerstein, Immanuel The Modern World-System
16. Foucault, Michel Discipline and Punish : the Birth of the Prison
17. Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
18. Simmel, Georg Sociology: Inquiries into the Construction of Social Forms
19. Beck, Ulrich Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity
20. Braverman, Harry Labor and Monopoly Capitalism: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
21. Adorno, Theodor W. and Horkheimer, Max Dialectic of Enlightenment
22. Gramsci, Antonio Prison Notebooks
23. Coleman, James Samuel Foundations of Social Theory
24. Habermas, Jürgen Knowledge and Human Interests
25. Moore, B. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
26. Polanyi, Karl The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
27. Blau, Peter Michael and Duncan, Otis Dudley The American Occupational Structure
28. Gouldner, Alvin W. Coming Crisis of Western Sociology
29. Luhmann, Niklas Social Systems
30. Mannheim, Karl Ideology and Utopia
31. Becker, Howard S. Outsiders: Studies in Sociology of Deviance
32. Marx, Karl Capital: Critique of Political Economy
33. Olson, Mancur The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups
34. Durkheim, Emile The Division of Labor in Society
35. Durkheim, Emile The Rules of Sociological Methods
36. Garfinkel, Harold Studies in Ethnomethodology
37. Goffman, Erving Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
38. Lipset, Seymour Martin Political Man
39. Mills, Charles Wright The Power Elite
40. Bourdieu, Pierre The Logic of Practice
41. Cardoso, Fernando Henrique and, Faletto, Enzo Dependency and Development in Latin America
42. Dahrendorf, R. Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society
43. Giddens, Anthony The Consequences of Modernity
44. Goffman, Erving Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
45. Kanter, R.M. Men and Women of the Corporation
46. Schütz, Alfred Phenomenology of the Social World
47. Berger, Peter L. Invitation to Sociology
48. Bourdieu, Pierre and Passeron, Jean-Claude Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture
49. Etzioni, Amitai Active Society: A Theory of Societal and Political Processes
50. Glaser, Barney G. and Strauss, Anselm L. Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research
51. Habermas, J. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
52. Sorokin, Pitirim A. Social and Cultural Dynamics
53. Touraine, A. Production de la Societe
54. Weber, Max The Sociology of Religion
55. Weber, Max The Methodology of the Social Sciences
56. Arendt, Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism
57. Boudon, Raymond Logic of Social Action: An Introduction to Sociological Analysis
58. Braudel, Fernand Civilization and Capitalism
59. Durkheim, Emile On Suicide: A Study in Sociology
60. Geertz, Clifford The Interpretation of Cultures
61. Giddens, Anthony Sociology
62. Janowitz, Morris Professional Soldier
63. Lazarsfeld, Paul Felix and Rosenberg, Morris The Language of Social Research
64. Lukács, Georg History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics
65. Mies, Maria Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour
66. Nisbet, Robert A. The Sociological Tradition
67. Palmer Thompson, Eric The Making of the English Working Class
68. Riesman, David The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character
69. Schütz, Alfred Collected Papers
70. Simmel, Georg The Philosophy of Money
71. Whyte, William Foote Street Corner Society: Social Structure of an Italian Slum
72. Alexander, Jeffrey C. Theoretical Logic in Sociology
73. Althusser, L. Reading Capital
74. Anderson, Benedict Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
75. Arendt, Hannah The Human Condition
76. Baumann, Zygmunt Postmodern Ethics
77. Beauvoir, Simone de The Second Sex
78. Benedict, Ruth Patterns of Culture
79. Blumer, Herbert Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method
81. Bourdieu, Pierre Outline of a Theory of Practice
82. Castells, Manuel Urban Question: A Marxist Approach
83. Crozier, Michel J. The Bureaucratic Phenomenon
84. Crozier, Michel J. and Friedberg, Erhard Actors and Systems: The Politics of Collective Action
85. Fanon, Frantz The Wretched of the Earth
86. Friedmann, G. Problèmes humains du machinisme industriel - Les débuts de la sociologie du travail
87. Gans, Herbert J. Urban Villagers: Group and Class in the Life of Italian-Americans
88. Gerth, H.H. and Mills, Ch.W. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
89. Giddens, Anthony New Rules of Sociological Method
90. Giddens, Anthony Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age
91. Goffman, Erving Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience
92. Hughes, Everett Charrington The Sociological Eye
93. Mann, Michael The Sources of Social Power
94. Marx, Karl The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
95. Mauss, Marcel The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
96. Popper, Karl R. The Logic of Scientific Discovery
97. Poulantzas, Nicos Political Power and Social Classes
98. Sorokin, Pitirim A. Social and Cultural Mobility
99. Thomas, William Isaac and Znaniecki, Florian The Polish Peasant in Europe and America: A Classic Work in Immigration History
100. Wittgenstein, Ludwig Philosophical Investigations
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