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1960s in sociology

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The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1960s.

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1960

  • Raymond Aron's Main Currents in Sociological Thought is published.
  • Simone de Beauvoir's The Prime of Life is published.
  • Daniel Bell's The End of Ideology is published.
  • Friedrich Hayek's The Constitution of Liberty is published.
  • R.D. Laing's The Divided Self is published.
  • C. Wright Mills's Listen, Yankee: The Revolution in Cuba and Images of man is published.
  • Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason is published.
  • Joan Woodward's The Saleswoman is published.
  • Michael Young's and Peter Willmott's Family and class in a London suburb is published.
  • Howard S. Becker serves as president of the ASA.

    • Deaths

  • October 5: Alfred L. Kroeber

    • 1961

  • James S. Coleman's The Adolescent Society is published.
  • Maurice Duverger's Method Of The Social Sciences is published.
  • Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilisation is published.
  • Georges Friedmann's The Anatomy of Work is published.
  • Morris Ginsberg's Essays in Sociology and Social Philosophy is published.
  • Erving Goffman's Asylums is published.
  • George C. Homans' Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms is published.
  • R.D. Laing's The Self and Others is published.
  • Oscar Lewis's The Children of Sanchez is published.
  • Robert E.L. Faris serves as president of the ASA.

    • 1962

  • Rachel Carson's Silent Spring is published.
  • Oliver Cox's Capitalism and American Leadership is published.
  • George Homans' Sentiments and Activities is published.
  • Roman Jakobson's Selected Writings is published.
  • Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is published.
  • Edmund Leach's Rethinking Anthropology is published.
  • C. Wright Mills' The Marxists is published.
  • Arnold Marshall Rose's Human Behaviour and Social Processes is published.
  • Richard Titmuss' Income Distribution and Social change is published.
  • Paul Lazarsfeld serves as president of the American Sociological Association.

    • Deaths

  • March 20: C. Wright Mills

    • 1963

  • Howard Saul Becker's Outsiders is published.
  • Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt's Political systems of empires is published.
  • Michel Foucault's The Birth of the Clinic is published.
  • Erving Goffman's Stigma is published.
  • Thomas Humphrey Marshall's Class, Citizenship and Social Development is published.
  • C. Wright Mills's Power, Politics and People is puplished.
  • Karl Popper's Conjectures and Refutations is published.
  • William Lloyd Warner's Yankee City series is published.

    • 1964

  • Oliver Cox's Capitalism as a system is published.
  • Georges Friedmann's Industrial Society: The Emergence of the Human Problems of Automation is published.
  • Ernest Gellner's Thought and Change is published.
  • Alvin Ward Gouldner's Anti-Minataur; The Myth of Value-free Sociology is published.
  • R.D. Laing's Sanity, Madness and the Family is published.
  • Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man is published.
  • C. Wright Mills's Sociology and Pragmatism is puplished.
  • William Fielding Ogburn's On Cultural and Social Change is published.
  • Louis Wirth's On Cities and Social Life is published.

    • Deaths

  • April 14: Rachel Carson

    • 1965

  • Louis Althusser's For Marx is published.
  • Louis Althusser's Reading Capital is published.
  • Ralf Dahrendorf's Society and Democracy in Germany is published.
  • Morris Ginsberg's On Justice In Society is published.
  • Ian Hacking's The Logic of Statistical Inference is published.
  • Herbert Marcuse's Repressive Tolerance is published.
  • Thomas Humphrey Marshall's Social Policy in the Twentieth Century is published.
  • Daniel Patrick Moynihan's Moynihan Report is published.
  • Otto Stammer's Political Sociology and Democratic Society is published.
  • Joan Woodward's Industrial Organisation: Theory and Practice is published.
  • Florian Znaniecki's Social Relations and Social Roles is published.
  • Pitirim A. Sorokin serves as president of the ASA.
  • Founding of the Economic and Social Research Council

    • Births

  • Nildo Viana

    • Deaths

  • March 13: Corrado Gini

    • 1966

  • Theodor Adorno's The Negative Dialect is published.
  • Theodor Adorno's Salmagundi is published.
  • Robert Adrey's The Central Imperative is published.
  • Raymond Aron's Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations is published.
  • Peter Berger's and Thomas Luckmann's The Social Construction of Reality is published.
  • James S. Coleman's Equality of Educational Opportunity is published.
  • Maurice Duverger's Political Sociology is published.
  • Michel Foucault's The Order of Things is published.
  • Jacques Lacan's Ecrits is published.
  • R.D. Laing's Interpersonal Perception: A Theory and a Method of Research is published.
  • Oscar Lewis' La Vida is published.
  • Barrington Moore Jr.'s Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy is published.
  • Talcott Parsons' Societies: Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives is published.
  • Karl Popper's Of Clouds and Clocks is published.
  • Bryan Wilson's Religion in a Secular Society is published.
  • Wilbert E. Moore serves as president of the ASA.

    • Deaths

  • April 14: George A. Lundberg
  • October 6: Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders
  • December 27: Ernest Burgess

    • 1967

  • Peter Berger's The Sacred Canopy is published.
  • Peter Michael Blau's and Otis Dudley Duncan's The American Occupational Structure is published.
  • Andre Gunder Frank's Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America is published.
  • Harold Garfinkel's Studies in Ethnomethodology is published.
  • Max Horkheimer's Critique of Instrumental Reason is published.
  • R.D. Laing's The Politics of Experience is published.
  • Nicos Panayiotou Mouzelis's Organisation and Bureaucracy: An analysis of Modern Theories is published.
  • John Rex's and Moore, R. S.'s Race, Community and Conflict: A Study of Sparkbrook is published.
  • Victor Turner's The Forest of Symbols is published.
  • The National Deviancy Conference holds its first meeting at the University of York.

    • 1968

  • Raymond Aron's The Elusive Revolution is published.
  • Jürgen Habermas' Knowledge and Human Interests is published.
  • Viola Klein's and Alva Myrdal's Women's Two Roles: Home and Work, 2nd edition is published.
  • Geoffry Duncan Mitchell's A Hundred Years of Sociology is published.
  • Gunnar Myrdal's Asian Drama: An inquiry into the Poverty of Nations is published.
  • Frank Parkin's Middle class radicalism : the social bases of the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is published.
  • Nicos Poulantzas' Political Power and Social Classes is published.
  • Cyril Smith's Adolescence : an introduction to the problems of order and the opportunities for continuity presented by adolescence in Britain is published.
  • The destruction of the 'Prague Spring' and the failure of the May '68 revolutions results in the beginning of the end of traditional Marxism as a sociological paradigm.

    • 1969

  • Louis Althusser's Lenin and Philosophy is published.
  • Herbert Blumer's Symbolic Interactionism is published.
  • Andre Gunder Frank's Latin America: Underdevelopment or revolution is published.
  • Andre Gunder Frank's Sociology of Development and Underdevelopment of Sociology is published.
  • Ernest Gellner's Saints of the Atlas is published.
  • Edmund Leach's Genesis as Myth and Other Essays is published.
  • David Matza's Causes of Delinquency is published.
  • Ralph Miliband's The State in Capitalist Society is published.
  • Dorothy Swaine Thomas' The Salvage is published.
  • Victor Turner's The Ritual Process is published.

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