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  • Books of the Century

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1

Weber, Max

Economy and Society

20.9

2

Mills, Charles Wright

The Sociological Imagination

13.0

3

Merton, Robert K.

Social Theory and Social Structure

11.4

4

Weber, Max

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

10.3

5

Berger, P.L. and Luckmann, T.

The Social Construction of Reality

9,9

6

Bourdieu, Pierre

Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste

9.5

7

Elias, Norbert

The Civilizing Process: Power and Civility

6.6

8

Habermas, Jurgen

The Theory of Communicative Action

6.4

9

Parsons, Talcott

The Structure of Social Action

6.2

10

Goffman, Erving

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

5.5

One of the major aims of the Montreal Congress was to make a critical assessment of sociological heritage of the twentieth century. In this framework the ISA Congress Programme Committee carried on in 1997 an opinion survey in order to identify ten most influential books for sociologists. ISA members were asked to list five books published in the twentieth century which were most influential in their work as sociologists. 16% of ISA members (455 out of 2785) participated in the survey.