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Suggested Readings and Resources for all Sociology Students

Anthony Giddens. 1984. The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration. Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN:0520057287

Axelrod, Robert M. The Evolution of Cooperation. 1984. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-02121-2.

Brown, Richard Harvey. 1977. A Poetic for Sociology: Toward a Logic of Discovery for the Human Sciences. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0 521-21121-2.

Dawkins, Richard. 1989. The Selfish Gene. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-217773-7.

Diggins, John P. 1978. The Bard of Savagery: Thorstein Veblen and Modern Social Theory. New York: The Seabury Press. ISBN 0-8164-9323-5.

Hans L Zetterberg. 1965. On Theory and Verification in Sociology. Totowa, N.J.: Bedminster Press.  ISBN: B0007IDC4

Kevin Phillips, American Theocracy : The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century, Viking 2006. ISBN 0-670-03488-X

L. Harrison & S. Huntington. 2000. Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress New York, NY: Basic Books. ISBN: 0465031765

Noam Chomsky, Failed States : The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy, Metropolitan Books, 2006. ISBN: 0805079122

Stark, Rodney. 1996. The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-02749-8.