📚 Social Institutions

Books with social institutions on their catalogue record, first published between 1774 and 2021, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject social institutions in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,286 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Mutual Aid	Peter Kropotkin	1891	173
	Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft	Max Weber	1922	38
	Die Gabe	Marcel Mauss	1950	33
	Celebration of Awareness	Ivan Illich	1969	21
	Women, politics, and power	Pamela Marie Paxton	2006	15
	Thinking about women	Margaret L. Andersen	1983	14
	Proper studies	Aldous Huxley	1927	12
	Pro/Con	Sally McFall	2002	12
	The SAGE handbook of organizational institutionalism	Royston Greenwood	2008	11
	Modern German Sociology	Volker Meja	1987	9
	The constitution of society	Anthony Giddens	1984	8
	Investigating Social Problems	A. Javier Trevino	2014	8
	Identity and control	Harrison C. White	1992	7
	The marriage and family experience	Bryan Strong	2001	7
	Children's influence on family dynamics	Ann C. Crouter	2003	7
	The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 17501950	F. M. L. Thompson	1990	6
	Mapping the Social Landscape	Susan J Ferguson	2001	6
	Generating Predictability	Christoph Engel	2005	6
	Institutional work	Thomas B. Lawrence	2009	6
	Public Norms and Aspirations	Willem Salet	2018	6
	De la félicité publique	François Jean marquis de Chastellux	1774	5
	L'institution imaginaire de la société	Cornelius Castoriadis	1975	5
	Myth of the Madding Crowd	Clark McPhail	1991	5
	Global Institutions and Social Knowledge	Virginia M. Walsh	2004	5
	Institutions, development, and economic growth	Theo S. Eicher	2006	5
	The moral foundations of social institutions	Seumas Miller	2009	5
	Thinking about Women	Margaret L. Andersen	2010	5
	Tame the Primitive Brain	Mark Bowden	2013	5
	First Institutional Spheres in Human Societies	Seth Abrutyn	2021	5
	Introduction to critical theory	David Held	1980	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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