Greetings,

I'm enrolled in college under a human science major. Aside from the text books that I'll get for these courses, I'm looking for some books to read regarding these subjects. I'm primarily looking for psychology and sociology books, though I wouldn't mind having some general 'human science' books. In summary, I'm looking for some suggestions.

Thanks in advance.

Classics such as, "Le Suicide" by Emile Durkheim would probably be a good one to buy. He was one of the founding fathers of sociology and his Functionalist perspective still holds weight even to this day.

I can't remember the name of the sociologist who wrote the book, "Invitation to Sociology" but that's another classic to look into. I'll try and find the name of the sociologist who wrote it. It's been a while since I attended a sociology class.

Max Weber's, "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" is also another classic. It details the extent to which the Protestants had an effect on bringing about the industrial revolution.

And just about anything on Karl Marx. Good luck with your course. I'll update this post when I have a chance. Sociology was my favourite subject in school. I just can't remember specifics right now since it's been a while.

The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker is a good one to get a basic idea of the theories of human nature, especially as it relates to the field of psychology. Pinker is very opinionated, though, and some of his theories are controversial.

Hopefully, you won't get very far into your course before you get into Carl Jung. He is taught in psychology and anthropology classes, as well as literature and even business, but oddly very rarely in psychiatry, which is still mired in Freud. You might want to get a head start now. If his work is too heavy (it sure is for me, but then I'm a layman), check out Joseph Campbell, his most successful popularizer and arguably both the most scholarly and the most accessible.

Pinker's Prose Sweeps The Reader Along Effortlessly, Despite The Complexity And Sheer Size Of The Intellectual Territory He Covers.

Pinker's Prose Sweeps The Reader Along Effortlessly, Despite The Complexity And Sheer Size Of The Intellectual Territory He Covers.
:bugeye: Uhhh, I'll have the cole slaw.

If you want a good intro book that is easy yet impacting, read, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, By Freud.

But The Fullest And Strangest Development Of Such Thinking Appears In Leo Bersani’s Brilliant Introduction To Civilisation And Its Discontents. Here We Learn That ‘The Real And Profound Subject’ Of The Book Is Aggression, And That Aggression Can’t, In The End, Be Separated Either From Sex Or From Society