What to Read After The Sociological Imagination
Readers who loved The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Sociological Imagination is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Sociological Imagination
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
From Max Weber
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
The McDonaldization of society
Stigma
Capitalism and Modern Social Theory
Asylums
The Theory of the Leisure Class
Sociology of Religion
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Liquid Modernity
The Civilizing Process
Outsiders
An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology
Sidewalk
Modernity and the Holocaust
The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article
The Power Elite
The Constitution of Society
Bowling Alone
The Interpretation of Cultures
La Distinction
Modernity and Self-identity