📚 Social Ethics

Books with social ethics on their catalogue record, first published between 1723 and 2021, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject social ethics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 5,373 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
	The fable of the bees	Bernard Mandeville	1723	36
	L'enracinement	Simone Weil	1949	32
	How to observe	Harriet Martineau	1838	24
	Justice	Michael J. Sandel	2007	24
	What social classes owe to each other	William Graham Sumner	1883	22
	Social and Ethical Interpretations in Mental Development (1897) (Thoemmes Press - Classics in Psychology)	James Mark Baldwin	1897	20
	Moral man and immoral society	Reinhold Niebuhr	1932	17
	Leçons de sociologie	Émile Durkheim	1950	16
	Taking Sides	Stephen Satris	1988	16
	L'Enracinement	WEIL	1949	15
	What Social Classes Owe to Each Other	William Graham Sumner	1970	15
	The elements of moral philosophy	James Rachels	1986	15
	Sceptical essays	Bertrand Russell	1928	12
	Principles of western civilisation	Benjamin Kidd	1902	11
	Man, the social creator	Henry Demarest Lloyd	1906	10
	Moral social	Eugenio María de Hostos	1888	9
	Social environment and moral progress	Alfred Russel Wallace	1913	9
	Social Ethics	Jane S. Zembaty	1996	9
	Social morality	Frederick Denison Maurice	1869	8
	Ariel	José Enrique Rodó	1911	8
	Essays in sociology and social philosophy	Ginsberg, Morris	1947	8
	Applying ethics	Jeffrey Olen	1989	8
	Social ethics	Thomas A. Mappes	1977	7
	Social and moral values	Nancy Eisenberg	1989	7
	Professional Ethics and Civic Morals	Émile Durkheim	1992	7
	The principle of duty	David Selbourne	1994	7
	Identity	Steph Lawler	2013	7
	What We Owe Each Other	Minouche Shafik	2021	7
	Citizenship	Milton Bennion	1917	6
	The individual and the social order	Joseph Alexander Leighton	1926	6

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

Nearby shelves

Social EvolutionSocial GroupsSocial IndicatorsSocial InfluenceSocial InstitutionsSocial Intelligence

Want the ideas behind these books explained rather than listed? Try Study for short explainers, Academy for deeper tracks, and the periodic table or the night sky when the book is about matter or stars.