# Books about social theory and social anthropology #

## Secondary literature ##

These books are textbooks and anthologies of social theory and sociocultural anthropology, and may be useful as an orientation to the social sciences as a field. 

Adams, Bert, and R. A. Sydie. 2001. Sociological Theory. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Pine Forge Press.

Berger, Peter L. 2011. Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective. New York: Open Road Media.

Cheater, Angela P. 2003. Social Anthropology: An Alternative Introduction. 2nd ed. Routledge.

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. 2001. Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropolog. 2nd ed. London: Pluto Press.

Lemert, Charles C. 2008. Social Things: An Introduction to the Sociological Life. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

## Classics of social theory ##

If you would like to continue to read up on the big ideas and debates of social theory, why not start with one of these great books? Below is a short, somewhat selective, list of favorite works of the lecturers. 

Barth, Fredrik. 1969. Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference. New York: Little, Brown.

Berger, Peter L., and Thomas Luckmann. 1967. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. New York: Anchor.

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1977. Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dumont, Louis. 1980. Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Durkheim, Emile. 2014 [1893]. The Division of Labor in Society. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Fortes, Meyer. 2004. Kinship and the Social Order: The Legacy of Lewis Henry Morgan. London: Routledge.

Foucault, Michel, Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon, and Peter Miller. 1991. The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Gibson-Graham, J. K. 2006. The End of Capitalism (as We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy. 2nd ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Goffman, Erving. 2008. Behavior in Public Places. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Haraway, Donna J. 1991. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge.

Latour, Bruno. 1993. We Have Never Been Modern. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1969. The Elementary Structures of Kinship. Boston: Beacon Press.

Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1932 [1922]. Argonauts of The Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea. London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd. 

Marx, Karl. 1843. “Marx to Ruge: Letters from the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher.” Marxists Internet Archive. September. https://www.marxists.org/.

———. 1887. Capital, Vol. 1. Moscow: Progress Publishers. https://www.marxists.org/.

Polanyi, Karl. 1944. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. Boston: Beacon Press.

Radcliffe-Brown, A. R. 1952. Structure and Function in Primitive Society. New York: The Free Press.

Simmel, Georg. 2011. The Philosophy of Money. London: Routledge.

Strathern, Marilyn. 1988. The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.

Weber, Max. 1946. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Edited by C. Wright Mills and H. H. Gerth. New York: Oxford University Press.

Wolf, Eric R. 1982. Europe and the People Without History. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.

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