Sociology book recommendations?

[AlP]

I've been reading a book about Émile Durkheim and am finding myself fascinated with sociology. There appear to be a number of college 101 sociology textbooks. Does anyone have any recommendations, textbook or otherwise?

[Whitney]

I took a sociology course on death and dying that I thought was interesting, this was our textbook:

Confronting Death:  Values, Institutions, and Human Morality
http://www.amazon.com/Confronting-Death ... 0195042964

[AlP]

^ Ooh! That looks interesting. It's in my Amazon wish list. I think I'll get a book that's more general in scope first though. Thanks Whitney.

[AlP]

And on the subject of death... I think I'll get "The Letter from Death" by Lillian Moats. I read another excerpt than the one on Amazon in Humanist magazine and I liked it. It appears to be a deconstruction of death. They wouldn't say that in Humanist magazine of course! I wonder whether they even noticed the post-modernist themes.  

[Sophus]

Erich Fromm. You will love him! Escape From Freedom, To Have Or To Be?, or The Art of Loving. I'm always kind of promoting him here... don't know if anyone else has read anything of his yet. But, yes, he's absolutely marvelous.