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Understanding Society:25 Great Books
A Listmania! list by Pinkas Merryweather the Third
1.  Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (2 volume set) by Max Weber
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2.  The Interpretation Of Cultures (Basic Books Classics) by Clifford Geertz
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3.  Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture by Claude Levi-Strauss
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4.  Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays by Bronislaw Malinowski
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5.  Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Culture by Marvin Harris
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6.  The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change by Randall Collins
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7.  Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World by Benjamin Barber
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8.  Democracy in America (Signet Classics) by Alexis de Tocqueville
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9.  Wealth of Nations (Great Minds Series) by Adam Smith
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10.  The Middle East by Bernard Lewis
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11.  Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age by Roger Kimball
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12.  Men of Ideas by Lewis A. Coser
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13.  Essays on Music by Theodor Adorno
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14.  Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict
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15.  The Organization Man by William H. Whyte
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16.  Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics) by Karl Marx
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17.  The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
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18.  Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There by David Brooks
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19.  Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam
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20.  The Theory of the Leisure Class (Penguin Classics) by Thorstein Veblen
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21.  The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman
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22.  Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures by Marvin Harris
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23.  The Human Animal: A Personal View of the Human Species by Desmond Morris
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24.  Inarticulate Society: Eloquence and Culture in America by Tom Shachtman
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25.  Tenured Radicals, Revised: How Politics has Corrupted our Higher Education by Roger Kimball
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