- Understanding Society (2005) - Margaret L. Andersen, Kim A. Logio, Howard F. Taylor (editors)
Anticipated reading:
- Nickel-and-Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (2001) - Barbara Ehrenreich
- God in Popular Culture (1988) - Andrew M. Greeley
- The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959) - Erving Goffman
- Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood (1995) - Jay MacLeod
- Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (2003) - Annette Lareau
- The Lonely Crowd (1961) - David Riesman
Desired reading:
- The Sociological Imagination (1959) - C. Wright Mills
- The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, Promise (1997) - Allan G. Johnson
- Black Feminist Thought (1991) - Patricia Hill Collins
- The Power Elite (1956) - C. Wright Mills
- Top Heavy (1996) - Edward N. Wolff
- Diversity in the Power Elite: Have Women and Minorities Reached the Top? (1998) - Richard Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff
- Generation Me (2006) - Jean M. Twenge
Completed reading:
- None yet.