Recommended Reading in the Social Sciences

[rousseau]

I don't have much to recommend myself as I've been more of a biology person in the past, but I did read and enjoy Berger's 'The Social Construction of Reality' in the past year.

Are there any other titles people would recommend?

 

[Politesse]

For the social sciences as a whole? I like Michel de Certau's "Practice of Everyday Life" and Lakoff & Johnson's "Metaphors We Live By" as interesting starting points for someone with a bit of a philosophy background.

I might then start plowing through the Oxford Very Short Introductions series, which have nice, well-researched but simply packaged entries for all of the social disciplines.

 

[Testy Calibrate]

I don't have much to recommend myself as I've been more of a biology person in the past, but I did read and enjoy Berger's 'The Social Construction of Reality' in the past year.

Are there any other titles people would recommend?

Berger and Luckmann. But yes. C. W. Mills, The Sociological Imagination.

 

[Testy Calibrate]

Also, maybe a little odd to include here but Steven Johnson's, Emergence, is one of those that provides really good context.