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Selected College Sociology Textbooks
and some useful related sites Prepared by Paul DiMaggio Updated by Caroline Persell, 3/19/09
Margaret Andersen and Howard Taylor, Sociology: Understanding a Diverse Society. http://www.newtexts.com/newtexts/book.cfm?book_id=31
Jeanne H. Ballantine and Keith A. Roberts. Our Social World: Introduction to Sociology. 2006. Pine Forge Press. http://www.pineforge.com/
Dalton Conley. 2009. You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Thinking Like a Sociologist. New York: W.W. Norton. http://www.wwnorton.com/COLLEGE/titles/soc/conley/
Susan J. Ferguson, Mapping the Social Landscape. (A reader – Many of the textbooks also have associated readers.) http://web.grinnell.edu/sociology/faculty/mapsocland.html
Anthony Giddens, Mitchell Duneier, and Richard Appelbaum. Introduction to Sociology. http://www.wwnorton.com/college/soc/giddens5/
Jeff Goodwin and James Jasper. 2007. The Contexts Reader. New York: W.W. Norton. http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/titles/soc/context/
James Henslin, Essentials of Sociology. http://www.ablongman.com/bridge/0,3882,0205337139:0205352243:0205319149,00.htm
William Kornblum and Carolyn Smith. Sociology in a Changing World http://www.thomsonedu.com/thomsonedu/instructor.do?totalresults.do?page=discipline&dispnum=&keyfor=allsite&keyitem=all&keyword=null&keytype=null&resultfor=higheredu&resulttype=instructor&keyword_all=Sociology&keyword_isbn=Enter%20ISBN&pagefrom=search&disciplinenumber=14&product_isbn=9780495096351&contextelement=http://www.thomsonedu.com/thomsonedu
John J. Macionis and Ken Plummer, Sociology: A Global Introduction. http://wps.prenhall.com/ema_uk_he_plummer_sociology_2/0,5445,395997-main,00.html
Richard T. Schaefer. Sociology, 10th Edition. http://catalogs.mhhe.com/mhhe/viewProductDetails.do?isbn=0073404144
Henry Tischler, Introduction to Sociology, 9th Edition. http://www.thomsonedu.com/thomsonedu/instructor.do?totalresults.do?page=discipline&dispnum=null&keyfor=allsite&keyitem=all&keyword=null&keytype=null&resultfor=higheredu&resulttype=instructor&keyword_all=Tischler&keyword_isbn=Enter%20ISBN&pagefrom=search&disciplinenumber=14&product_isbn=9780495093343&contextelement=http://www.thomsonedu.com/thomsonedu
Selected Short Introductory Books in Sociology, Prepared by Caroline Persell 10/26/01
Babbie, Earl R. 1994. What is Society? Reflections on Freedom, Order, and Change. Thousand Oaks, CA, Pine Forge Press.
Charon, Joel M. 1999. The Meaning of Sociology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. —. 2001. Ten Questions: A Sociological Perspective. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Collins, R. and M. Makowsky. 1998. The Discovery of Society. New York, McGraw Hill.
Collins, Randall. Sociological Insight: An Introduction to Non-Obvious Sociology. Oxford University Press.
Dandaneau, Steven P. Taking it Big. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
Giddens, Anthony. 1987. Sociology: A Brief but Critical Introduction. Second Edition. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Hachen, David S., Jr. 2001. Sociology in Action: Cases for Critical and Sociological Thinking. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
Johnson, Allan. The Forest and the Trees. Mayfield. Lemert, Charles. Social Things, Rowman and Littlefield.
Levin, W. C. (1994). Sociological Ideas: Concepts and Applications. Belmont, CA, Wadsworth.
Newman, D. M. (2000). Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life. Thousand Oaks, CA, Pine Forge Press.
O'Brien, Jodi. 1999. Social Prisms. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
Schwalbe, Michael. 2001. The Sociologically Examined Life. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield.
More recent editions of many of these books are now available. Further suggestions and comments are most welcome.