📚 Social Change

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with social change on their catalogue record, first published between 1801 and 2021, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject social change in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 18,129 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 Open Society and Its Enemies (1+2)	Karl Popper	1945	76
Future shock	Alvin Toffler	1801	47
Culture and commitment	Margaret Mead	1970	33
21 Lessons for the 21st Century	Yuval Noah Harari	2018	33
The Humanities	Henry M. Sayre	2008	31
The Gutenberg Galaxy	Marshall McLuhan	1962	27
Celebration of Awareness	Ivan Illich	1969	21
Fundraising for social change	Kim Klein	1985	21
Thought and Change	Ernest Gellner	1964	17
Hope in the Dark	Rebecca Solnit	2004	17
The third wave	Alvin Toffler	1980	16
The End of History and the Last Man	Francis Fukuyama	1992	16
Power, politics and people	C. Wright Mills	1939	14
The Humanities	Henry M. Sayre	2007	14
The Ordeal of Change	Eric Hoffer	1963	13
Enlightenment now	Steven Pinker	2018	12
Design for the real world	Victor Papanek	1971	11
The Open Society and Its Enemies	Karl Popper	1952	10
Social change with respect to culture and original nature	William Fielding Ogburn	1922	9
Child, family, school, community	Roberta Berns	1996	9
Questioning identity	Kath Woodward	1999	9
The Rational Optimist	Matt Ridley	2010	9
The Age of A.I.	Henry Kissinger	2021	9
Perspectives on social change	Robert H. Lauer	1973	8
Social evolution	V. Gordon Childe	1951	7
The planning of change	Warren G. Bennis	1961	6
Sociology	George Ritzer	1974	6
Government in the future	Noam Chomsky	2005	6
Everyday Culture	David Trend	2007	6
The master and his emissary	Iain McGilchrist	2009	6

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

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