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Culture
Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate") is a term that has different meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions. However, the word ...
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Totem and Taboo
Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a book by Sigmund Freud published in German in 1913 under the title Totem und Tabu: Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker. It is a...
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Reason and Revolution
Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory, published by Herbert Marcuse in 1941, is a dialectical study of the social theories of Hegel and Marx. The author characterises it as a reinterpretation of Hegel's philosophy, with the...
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Absurdistan
Absurdistan is a 2006 novel by Gary Shteyngart. It chronicles the adventures of Misha Vainberg, the 325-pound son of the 1,238th-richest man in Russia, as he struggles to return to his true love in the South Bronx.
After Misha's father kills a...
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- 2006
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- May 2, 2006
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Wolf Totem
Wolf Totem is a semi-autobiographical novel about the experiences of a young student from Beijing who finds himself sent down to the countryside of Inner Mongolia in 1967, at the height of China's Cultural Revolution. The author, Lü Jiamin, wrote...
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- Apr 2004
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Critical Path
Critical Path is a book written by US author and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller. First published in 1981, it is alongside Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth one of his best-known works. Vast in its scope, it describes Fuller's own vision of the...
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- 1981
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- 1981
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Knowledge and Decisions
Knowledge and Decisions is a non-fiction book by American economist Thomas Sowell. Sowell explicates social and economic knowledge and how it is transmitted through the many facets of society, and how that transmission affects decisions made....
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- 1996
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Economy and Society
Economy and Society is a book by political economist and sociologist Max Weber, published posthumously in Germany in 1922 by his wife Marianne. Alongside The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, it is considered to be one of Weber's most...
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Social Evolution
Social Evolution is the title of an essay by Benjamin Kidd, which became available as a book published by Macmillan and co London in 1894. In it, Kidd discusses the basis for society as an evolving phenomenon, with reference to past societies, the...
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Whoever you are
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Conscious evolution
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Race and Culture
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In other worlds
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We want some too
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Pain, sex, and time
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Culture
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Max Weber
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World prehistory
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Africa counts
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Century of war
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Flesh and Blood
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One Nation, Two Cultures: A Searching Examination of American Society in the Aftermath of Our Cultural Revolution
One Nation, Two Cultures: A Searching Examination of American Society in the Aftermath of Our Cultural Revolution is a book by Gertrude Himmelfarb.
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- 1999
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Essays in socio-economics
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Moral Dimension
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The Giddens reader
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Introduction to sociology
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Durkheim
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In defence of sociology
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Modern social theory
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Classical social theory
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The things of the world
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Max Weber
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Material World
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Essentials of Sociology
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Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity
Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity is a book by Gary Cross.
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- Aug 2008
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Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture
Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture is a book by Taylor Clark.
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- Nov 2007
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Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture
Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture is a book by Thomas P. Hughes.
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- Jul 2004
