(1994) University of California Press.

Within six weeks, these students would experience peaks of exhilaration as their movement grew beyond their short-term expectations, troughts of depression as it seemd to falter from ineffective leadership and lack of direction, and rage as soldiers following government orders killed hundrers or even thousands of protesters.

From Colina MacDougall, Times Literary Supplement: "Calhoun's analysis of the whos and the whys of the Tiananmen protest is excellent."

From the publisher: Prize for Best Recent Book in Political Sociology, The American Sociological Association.

Calhoun, C. (1997). Neither Gods nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China. University of California Press.

(1989; 7th ed., 1996) McGraw-Hill Companies.

The seventh edition of this research-based survey presents sociological principles using five key concepts: function, structure, action, culture, and power. These concepts allow the text to provide a more comprehensive coverage of structural sociology and culture than any other book. The balanced presentation is combined with student-oriented examples that bring the content to life.

Calhoun, C., Light, D., & Keller, S. (1996). Sociology. McGraw-Hill College. (Subsequent edition). ISBN-10: 0070380694, ISBN-13: 978-0070380691.

(1982) University of Chicago Press and Basil Blackwell.

Calhoun, C. J. (1982). The Question of Class Struggle: Social Foundations of Popular Radicalism During the Industrial Revolution. University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 0226090906.

(1975) Experience–Rich Anthropology, University of Kent.

Twenty years after its completion at the University of Manchester, this doctoral thesis was selected and published by the Experience-Rich Anthropology project at the University of Kent. The initiative showcases ethnographic research distinguished by depth, narrative richness, and long-form field engagement. Presented in its original format. Including structure, length, and occasional imperfections. The work reflects an important early stage in a developing scholarly trajectory and is now publicly accessible through the project’s digital archive.