📚 Social Problems

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with social problems on their catalogue record, first published between 1800 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject social problems in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 23,844 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.

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	27
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 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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