Social Philosophy audiobooks
How societies hold together — and fall apart.
Early sociology and social thought: Gustave Le Bon on crowds, Émile Durkheim, William Graham Sumner, Charles Horton Cooley, Franz Boas, Harriet Martineau, Jane Addams and Thomas Carlyle. These writers tried to explain custom, class, religion and mass behaviour in an age of cities and newspapers — questions that feel newly urgent.
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- Full text on screen as you listen
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All 10 social philosophy audiobooks
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#1 most popular
How the Other Half Lives
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#2 most popular
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
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#3 most popular
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
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The Mind of Primitive Man
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Past and Present
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How to Observe Morals and Manners
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Democracy and Social Ethics
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Human Nature and the Social Order
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The Reform of Education
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Are these social philosophy audiobooks free?
The first chapter of every book plays free with no account. A free account adds the opening chapters of every book, plus one whole book of your choice from a shelf of five classics. The full library — all 10 social philosophy titles and everything else — is $4.99 a month or $49 a year after a 7-day free trial, cancel anytime.
Can I read along while I listen?
Yes. Every Compendium audiobook shows the full chapter text on screen as it plays, on the web and in the iPhone and Android apps.
What's the shortest and longest social philosophy audiobook here?
Democracy and Social Ethics is the shortest at 4 hr 4 min; Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is the longest at 25 hr 37 min. The whole collection runs about 94 hours.