Sociology eBooks
A book about remarkable criminals
Sociology, by H.B IrvingThis is a book that focuses on a group of criminals whom the author found to be both remarkable and interesting. Human nature-based, each section details their lives, their crimes, and their fatal ends.
A Chapter in the Philosophy of Value
Sociology, by Georg Simmel.The fact of economic exchange confers upon the value of things something super-individual. It detaches them from dissolution in the mere subjectivity of the agents, and causes them to determine each other reciprocally, since each exerts its economic function in the other. The practically effective value is conferred upon the object, not merely by its own desirability, but by the desirability of...
Anarchism and other essays
Sociology, by Emma GoldmanEmma Goldman (June 27 [O.S. June 15] 1869 – May 14, 1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Born in Kovno in the Russian Empire (present-day Kaunas, Lithuania), Goldman emigrated to the US in 1885 and...
Death of a salesman
Sociology, by Arthur MillerArthur Miller has emerged as one of the most successful and enduring playwrights of the postwar era in America, no doubt because his focusing on middle-class anxieties brought on by a society that emphasizes the hollow values of material success has struck such a responsive chord. The recurring theme of anxiety and insecurity reflects much of Arthur Miller’s own past. Born the son of a...
Eugenics and other evils
Sociology, by G. K. Chesterton.G. K. Chesterton was an early critic of the philosophy of eugenics, expressing this opinion in his book, Eugenics and Other Evils. Its advocates regarded eugenics as a social philosophy for the improvement of human hereditary traits through various forms of intervention.Today it is widely regarded as a brutal movement which inflicted massive human rights violations on millions of peopleHIs...
Everyday life in the Warsaw Ghetto
Sociology, by Yad VashemThis unique album was taken by a German Nazi who was empowered to go into the Ghetto and be a witness of the conditions the Jews had to endure before being sent to the extermination camps. A powerful number of pictures of people destined to death before they became aware of their doom.
Friday the Thirteen
Sociology, by Thomas W. LawsonLawson wrote the novel Friday the Thirteenth in which a broker picks that day on which to bring down Wall Street.The Wall Street Crash of 1929 (October 1929), also known as the Great Crash, and the Stock Market Crash of 1929, was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout. The crash signaled...
History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest
Sociology, by Edward A JonesOn July 18, 1936, a fascist-led counter-revolutionary army revolt began against the five-year-old Spanish Republic and the coalition of various centrist and progressive parties that had been popularly elected five months before. The coalition was called the Popular Front and included the Communist Party of Spain. The revolt received crucial logistical and material support from fascist regimes...
How is society possible?
Sociology, by H. B. IrvingThe silent workings, and still more the explosions, of human passion which bring to light the darker elements of man's nature present to the philosophical observer considerations of intrinsic interest; while to the jurist, the study of human nature and human character with its infinite varieties, especially as affecting the connection between motive and action, between irregular desire or evil...
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