Sociology

Sociology includes 84 books of that cover Theory; the Role of Women; the Role of Black Americans; Hygiene, Birth Control, and Sex; the Salvation Army; and Socialism, with books by Jane Addams, Gustave le Bon, Thomas Malthus, W.E.B. Du Bois, Charles Mackay, and many others.

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Table of Contents

Theory

• Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri
• Leviathan by John Hobbes
• Problems of Poverty by John Hobson
• The Republic by Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett
• Sociology and Modern Social Problems by Charles Ellwood
• The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
• The Theory of Social Revolutions by Brook Adams, 1913
• Jane Addams
• Democracy and Social Ethics by Jane Addams, 1902
• The New Conscience and an Ancient Evil by Jane Addams, 1912
• The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets by Jane Addams, 1909
• Twenty Years at Hull House by Jane Addams
• Gustave le Bon
• The Crowd: a Study of the Popular Mind
• The Psychology of Revolution
• Thomas Malthus
• Effects of the Corn Laws
• An Essay on the Principle of Population
• Importation of Foreign Corn
• An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent
• The Role of Women
• A Woman's Life-Work by Laura Haviland
• Women Wage-Earners by Helen Campbell, 1893
• The Woman Who Toils by Mrs. John Van Vorst and Marie Van Vorst, 1903
• Women Workers in Seven Professions by Edith Morley
• The Role of Black Americans
• American Negro Slavery by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
• The Black Experience in America by Norman Coombs
• A Century of Negro Migration by Carter Woodson
• Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 by Carter Godwin Woodson
• The Future of the Colored Race in America by William Aikman (written during the Civil War) (short)
• History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880 by George Williams, volume 1
• A Social History of the American Negro by Benjamin Brawley, 1921
• The Negro Problem
• Industrial Education for the Negro by Booker T. Washington
• The Talented Tenth by W.E.B. DuBois
• The Disfranchisement of the Negro by Charles W. Chesnutt
• The Negro and the Law by Wilford H. Smith
• The Characteristics of the Negro People by H.T. Kealing
• Representative American Negroes by Paul Laurence Dunbar
• The Negro's Place in American Life at the Present Day by T. Thomas Fortune
• W.E.B. Du Bois
• The Conservation of Races (short)
• The Negro by W.E.B. DuBois, 1915
• The Souls of Black Folk
• Hygiene, Birth Control, and Sex
• Birth Control by Halliday Sutherland
• The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugal Love by Emanuel Swedenborg
• Essays in War-Time, Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis
• The Four Epoch's of a Woman's Life: a Study in Hygiene by Anna Galbraith
• The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion by Eliza Burt Gamble
• Safe Marriage, a Return to Sanity by Ettie Rout, 1922
• Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living by H.W. Long
• Sex and Society: Studies in the Sociology of Sex by William Thomas
• The Social Emergency: Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals edited by William Foster, 1914
• Youth and Sex by Mary Scharlieb, 1919
• Salvation Army
• Authoritative Life of William Booth Founder of the Salvation Army by G.S. Railton
• City of Fire by Frace Livingston Hill
• General William Booth Enters Into Heaven and Othre Poems by Vachel LIndsay
• Lo, Michael! by Grace Livingston Hill
• The Mystery of Mary by Grace Livingston Hill (Lutz)
• Our Master: Thoughts for Salvationists About Their Lord by General Bramwell Booth (Salvation Army)
• Regeneration, being an account of the social work of the Salvation ARmy in Great Britain by H. Rider Haggard, 1910
• The War Romance of the Salvation Army by Evangeline Booth and Grace Livingson Hill, 1919
• In Darkest England and the Way Out by General Booth
• General William Booth Enters Heaven and Other Poems by Vachel Lindsay
• Socialism: Pro and Con
• The Inhumanity of Socialism by Edward Adams
• Socialism and American Ideals by William Myers, 1919
• Le Socialisme en Danger by Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, 1897
• Ancient Town-Planning by F. Haverfield
• Biographies of Working Men by Grant Allen
• The Breadwinners: a Social Study, 1901
• Broken Homes: a Study of Family Desertion and Its Social Treatment by Joanna Colcord, 1919
• Civics as Applied Sociology by Patrick Geddes
• An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance by John Foster
• Essays in Rebellion by Henry Nevinson, 1913
• Essays on Work and Culture by Hamilton Wright Mabie
• The Evolution of an English Town by Gordon Home
• The Evolution of the Japanese: Social and Psychic by Sidney Gulick
• Grain and Chaff from an English Manor by Arthur Savvy
• Home-Life of the Lanchasire Factory Folk During the Cotton Famine by Edwin Waugh
• The Laws of Etiquette by a Gentleman
• Lighted to Lighten: The Hope of India, a study of conditions among women in India by Abie Van Doren, 1922
• London's Underworld by Thomas Holmes
• Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions by Charles Mackay
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Mob Rule in New Orleans by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
• Mutual Aid by Pyotr Kropotkin
• Norwegian Life: an Account of Past and Contemporary Conditions and Progress in Norway and Sweden, edited by Ethlyn Clough
• Our Foreigners: a Chronicle of Americans in the Making by Samuel Orth
• Practical Illustration of Woman's Right to Labor by Marie Zakrzewska
• The Promise of American Life by Herbert Croly
• Proposals for Building in Every County a Working-Alms-House or Hospital, 1677
• Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann
• Wear and Tear or Hints for the Overworked by S. Weir Mitchell
• What Dress Makes of Us by Dorothy Quigley
• White Slaves or the Oppression of the Worthy Poor by Louis Banks

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