Book Review: On the Importance of Books,Reviews,and Humanist Sociology

Davis Kingsley Moore Wilbert E. 1945. “Some Principles of Stratification.”American Sociological Review 10(2):242–49.

de Beauvoir Simone . [1949] 1971. The Second Sex. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Erasmus Desiderius . [1500] 1974. Letter to Jacob Batt (variant translation). Collected Works of Erasmus, Vol. 1: The Correspondence of Erasmus, Letters 1 to 141 (1484 to 1500). Translated by Mynors R. A. B. Thomson D. F. S. annotated by Ferguson W. K. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press.

Feagin Joe R. 1991. “The Continuing Significance of Race: Antiblack Discrimination in Public Places.” American Sociological Review 56:101–16.

Giovanni Nikki . 1995. Racism 101. New York: Quill.

Kaplan Nancy . 2007. “The NEA’s Misreading of Reading.” If: Book a Project of the Institute for the Future of the Book. November 29. Retrieved on 1 November 2014 (http://futureofthebook.org/blog/2007/11/29/the_neas_misreading_of_reading/).

Le Guin Ursula K. 2008. “Staying Awake: Notes on the Alleged Decline of Reading.” Harpers, February, 33–38.

Pearson David . 2008. Books as History: The Importance of Books beyond Their Texts. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press.

Postman Neil . 1985. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. New York: Penguin.

Singer Alan . 2014. “Common Core and the Death of Reading.” The Huffington Post, November 3. Retrieved (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-singer/common-core-and-the-death_b_6093362.html).

Wilson William J. 1978. The Declining Significance of Race. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.