1990s in sociology

1990

Aung San Suu Kyi's Burma and India: Some aspects of intellectual life under colonialism is published.

Zygmunt Bauman's Thinking Sociologically is published.

James Coleman's Foundations of Social Theory is published.

Troy Duster's Backdoor To Eugenics is published.

Mike Featherstone's, Mike Hepworth's and Bryan Turner's The body: social process and cultural theory is published.

Ian Hacking's The Taming of Chance is published.

Ian Hacking's Scientific Revolutions is published.

Nicole Lapierre's The Silence of the Memory is published and wins the Bulzoni Editore Special Award.

M. Rainer Lepsius' and Wolfgang J. Mommsen's (ed.) Max Weber is published and wins the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences.

Chen Liangjin's Social Developmental Mechanisms and Social Security Functions is published.

Niklas Luhmann's The Science of Society is published.

John B. Thompson's Ideology and Modern Culture: Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communications is published.

Paul Willis's Common culture: symbolic work at play in the everyday cultures of the young is published.

William Julius Wilson serves as the president of the ASA.

Deaths

August 1: Norbert Elias

October 22: Louis Althusser

1991

Theodor Adorno's Culture Industry Reconsidered is published.

Cornelius Castoriadis' Philosophy, Politics and Autonomy is published.

William H Chafe's The Unfinished Journey is published.

Louis Dumont's German ideology: from France to Germany and back is published and wins the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences.

Clive Emsley's English police: a political and social history is published.

Ron Eyerman's and Andrew Jamison's Social movements: a cognitive approach is published.

Ann Game's Towards a deconstructive sociology is published.

Steven Goldberg's When Wish Replaces Thought: Why So Much of What You Believe Is False is published.

Harvie Ferguson's Religious transformation in Western society: the end of happiness is published.

Anthony Giddens' Modernity and Self Identity is published.

Donna Haraway's A Cyborg Manifesto is published.

Nicos Panayiotou Mouzelis's Back to Sociological Theory: The Construction of Social Orders is published.

Philippe Sarasin's Die Stadt der Bürger is published and wins the Bulzoni Editore Special Award.

Stanley Lieberson serves as president of the ASA.

Immanuel Wallerstein's Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of Nineteenth Century Paradigms

Deaths

June 28/June 29: Henri Lefebvre

August 21: Oswald von Nell-Breuning

1992

Pierre Bourdieu's and Loïc Wacquant's An invitation to Reflexive Sociology is published.

Fei Xiaotong's Xingxing chong xingxing 《行行重行行》 (Travel, travel, and more travel) is published.

Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt's Jewish civilization: the Jewish historical experience in a comparative perspective is published.

Stuart Hall's, David Held's and Tony Mcgrew's Modernity and its Futures is published.

Stuart Hall's New Ethnicites is published.

David Lockwood's Solidarity and schism: the problem of disorder in Durkheimian and Marxist sociology is published.

Niklas Luhmann's Observations of modern trends is published.

Sal Restivo's Mathematics in Society and History is published.

Richard Skellington's and Paulette Morris's (eds.) Race in Britain Today is published.

Carlo Triglia's Sviluppo senza autonomia: effetti perversi delle politiche nel Mezzogiorno is published.

James Coleman serves as president of the American Sociological Association (ASA)

1993

Steven Goldberg's Why Men Rule is published.

Jean-François Lyotard's Toward The Postmodern is published.

Michael Mann's The Sources of Social Power (Volume 2) is published.

Michel Maffesoli's Contemplation of the World (La Contemplation du monde): figures of community style is published.

Douglas Massey's and Nancy Denton's American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass is published and wins the Distinguished Publication Award of the American Sociological Association.

Ralph Miliband's Socialism for a Sceptical Age is published.

George Ritzer's The McDonaldization of Society is published.

Renato Rosaldo's Culture and Truth is published.

Charles Tilly's European Revolutions, 1492–1992 is published and wins the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences the next year.

1994

Raymond Boudon's Art of self-persuasion: the social explanation of false beliefs is published.

Nigel Dodd's The Sociology of Money is published.

Clifford Geertz's The Uses of Diversity is published.

Anthony Giddens' Beyond Left and Right is published.

Deborah Lupton's Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body in Western Societies is published.

Angela McRobbie's Postmodernism and popular culture is published.

Charles Murray's The Bell Curve is published.

Cornel West's Race Matters is published.

Viviana Zeliver's The Social Meaning of Money is published.

Deaths

February 14 – Christopher Lasch

1995

Ulrich Beck's Ecological Politics in the Age of Risk is published.

Walden Bello founded Focus on the Global South in Bangkok, Thailand.

Raymond Boudon's Le Juste et le vrai is published.

Colin Crouch's Reinventing collective action: from the global to the local is published.

François Furet's The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century is published.

Ernest Gellner's Nationalism Observed is published.

Ian Hacking's Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory is published.

David Hollinger's Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalisms is published.

Christopher Lasch's The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy is published.

Sarah Nettleton's Sociology of Health and Illness is published.

Charles Tilly's Popular contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834 is published.

John B. Thompson's The Media and Modernity: A social Theory of the Media is published.

1996

Les Back's New Ethnicities and Urban culture is published.

Tim Dant's Fetishism and the social value of objects is published.

Stuart Hall's and Paul Du Gay's Questions of cultural identity is published.

Stevi Jackson's and Sue Scott's Feminism and Sexuality is published.

Richard Jenkins' Social Identity is published.

David Lee's and Bryan Turner's Conflicts about Class: Debating Inequality in Late Industrialism is published.

Serge Latouche's The Westernisation of the World is published.

Andrew W. Metcalfe's and Ann Game's Passionate Sociology is published.

Michel Maffesoli's The Time of Tribes - the Decline of Individualism in Mass Society is published.

Anna Pollert's The Poverty of Patriarchy is published.

Alejandro Portes' and Rubén Rumbaut's Immigrant America: A Portrait is published.

Cyril Smith's Marx at the millennium is published.

John Solomos' and Les Back's Racism and Society is published.

Bryan Turner's Body and Society is published.

Mobilization: The International Quarterly Review of Social Movement Research is first published by Hank Johnston.

1997

Jean Baudrillard's A Conjuration of Imbeciles is published.

Ulrich Beck's The Reinvention of Politics is published.

Michael Bury's Health and Illness in a changing society is published.

Stuart Hall's (ed.) Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Process is published.

Niklas Luhmann's The Society of Society is published and wins the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences.

Charles Murray's IQ and Economic Success is published.

Chris Shilling's The Body and Social Theory is published.

Beverley Skeggs's Formations of Class and Gender: Becoming Respectable is published.

Sylvia Walby's Gender Transformations is published.

Katherine Woodward's Identity and Difference is published.

Slavoj Žižek's Multi-culturalism or The Cultural Logic of Multi-national Capitalism is published.

Neil Smelser serves as president of the ASA.

1998

Ulrich Beck's World Risk Society is published.

Manuel Castells' The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture is published.

Anthony Giddens' The Third Way is published.

Ian Hacking's Mad Travellers is published.

Ron Eyerman's and Andrew Jamison's Music and social movements: mobilizing traditions in the twentieth century is published.

Serge Latouche's L'Autre Afrique: Entre don et marché is published.

Richard Sennett's Corrosion of character: the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism is published.

Alain Touraine's Comment sortir du libéralisme is published.

1999

David Byrne's Social Exclusion is published.

Colin Crouch's Social Change in Western Europe is published.

Máirtín Mac an Ghaill's Contemporary racisms and ethnicities is published.

Germaine Greer's The Whole Woman is published.

Ian Hacking's The Social Construction of What? is published.

Charles Murray's The Underclass Revisited is published.

Susan Moller Okin's Is Multiculturalism Bad For Women? is published.

Anne Phillips' Which equalities matter? is published.

Alejandro Portes serves as president of the American Sociological Association