📚 Social Problems

Poverty, inequality and disorder defined, measured and argued over — the study of what societies get wrong about themselves and try to fix.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject social problems in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. 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
	The acquisitive society	Richard H. Tawney	1920	76
	Past and present	Thomas Carlyle	1800	66
	Sociology	Richard T. Schaefer	1979	53
	Latter-day pamphlets	Thomas Carlyle	1850	39
	The Cry for Justice	Upton Sinclair	1915	28
	The managerial revolution	James Burnham	1941	27
	Ends and means	Aldous Huxley	1937	23
	Droit à la paresse	Paul Lafargue	1907	21
	Celebration of Awareness	Ivan Illich	1969	21
	Society	John J. Macionis	1992	21
	Reform Acts	Sarah Richardson	2019	21
	Philosophy and The Social Problem	Will Durant	1917	20
	The mind in the making	James Harvey Robinson	1921	19
	Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays	Charles Kingsley	1880	18
	Mountain city	Upton Sinclair	1930	18
	Economics of social issues	Ansel Miree Sharp	1986	18
	A preface to politics	Walter Lippmann	1913	17
	Sociology	Leonard Bloom	1957	17
	The living city	Frank Lloyd Wright	1958	17
	Sociology	John J. Macionis	2007	17
	Morality and moral controversies	John Arthur	2008	17
	The mind in the making	James Harvey Robinson	1921	16
	Social science	Elgin F. Hunt	1961	15
	The Practical Skeptic	Lisa J. McIntyre	1998	15
	In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays	Bertrand Russell	1935	14
	The new world order	H. G. Wells	1940	12
	Social problems	D. Stanley Eitzen	1980	12
	Man, the social creator	Henry Demarest Lloyd	1906	10
	Structure in architecture	Mario George Salvadori	1963	10
	The outline of sanity	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	1926	9

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 06 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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