La International Sociological Association acaba de publicar un sondeo con las obras más influyentes en la investigación sociológica durante el último siglo. En primer lugar, aparece Economy and Society, de Max Weber, al que le siguen autores como Mills, Bourdieu, Habermas, Parsons o Giddens. Polanyi o Geertz son algunos de los antropólogos que aparecen, quedando relegados otros como Lévi-Strauss. Publicamos a continuación este particular "top 100". La información completa puede obtenerse en la web http://www.isa-sociology.org/books/

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	AUTOR	LIBRO	VOTOS
1	Weber, Max	Economy and Society	95
2	Mills, Charles Wright	The Sociological Imagination	59
3	Merton, Robert K.	Social Theory and Social Structure	52
4	Weber, M.	The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism	47
5	Berger, P.L. and Luckmann, T.	The Social Construction of Reality	45
6	Bourdieu, Pierre	Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste	43
7	Elias, Norbert	The Civilizing Process	30
8	Habermas, Jürgen	The Theory of Communicative Action	29
9	Parsons, Talcott	The Structure of Social Action	28
10	Goffman, Erving	The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life	25
11	Mead, George Herbert	Mind, Self and Society	23
12	Parsons, Talcott	The Social System	23
13	Durkheim, Emile	The Elementary Forms of Religious Life	22
14	Giddens, Anthony	The Constitution of Society	21
15	Wallerstein, Immanuel	The Modern World-System	21
16	Foucault, Michel	Discipline and Punish : the Birth of the Prison	17
17	Kuhn, Thomas S.	The Structure of Scientific Revolutions	14
18	Simmel, Georg	Sociology	14
19	Beck, Ulrich	Risk Society	13
20	Braverman, Harry	Labour and Monopoly Capital	13
21	Adorno, Theodor W. and Horkheimer, Max	Dialectic of Enlightenment	12
22	Gramsci, Antonio	Prison Notebooks	12
23	Coleman, James Samuel	Foundations of Social Theory	11
24	Habermas, Jürgen	Knowledge and Human Interests	11
25	Moore, B.	The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy	11
26	Polanyi, Karl	The Great Transformation	11
27	Blau, Peter Michael and Duncan, Otis Dudley	The American Occup	10
28	Gouldner, Alvin W.	The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology	10
29	Luhmann, Niklas	Social Systems	10
30	Mannheim, Karl	Ideology and Utopia	10
31	Becker, Howard S.	Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance	9
32	Marx, Karl	Capital. A Critique of Political Economy	9
33	Olson, Mancur	The Logic Collective Action	9
34	Durkheim, Emile	The Division of Labor in Society	8
35	Durkheim, Emile	The Rules of Sociological Method	8
36	Garfinkel, Harold	Studies in Ethnomethodology	8
37	Goffman, Erving	Asylums	8
38	Lipset, Seymour Martin	Political Man	8
39	Mills, Charles Wright	The Power Elite	8
40	Bourdieu, Pierre	The Logic of Practice	7
41	Cardoso, Fernando Henrique and, Faletto, Enzo	Dependency and Development in Latin America	7
42	Dahrendorf, R.	Class and Class Conflict in an Industrial Society	7
43	Giddens, Anthony	The Consequences of Modernity	7
44	Goffman, Erving	Stigma	7
45	Kanter, R.M.	Men and Women of the Corporation	7
46	Schütz, Alfred	The Phenomenology of the Social World	7
47	Berger, Peter L.	Invitation to Sociology	6
48	Bourdieu, Pierre and Passeron, Jean-Claude	Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture	6
49	Etzioni, Amitai	The Active Society	6