1959 in sociology

The following events related to sociology occurred in 1959.

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Oliver Cox's Foundations of Capitalism is published.
Ralf Dahrendorf's Class and Class Conflict in an Industrial Society is published.
Ernest Gellner's Words and Things is published.
Erving Goffman's Presentation of Self in Everyday Life is published.
Morris Janowitz's Sociology and the Military Establishment is published.
Oscar Lewis' Five Families; Mexican Case Studies In The Culture Of Poverty is published.
C. Wright Mills's The Sociological Imagination is published.
Geoffrey Duncan Mitchell's Sociology : the study of social systems is published.
Karl Popper's The Logic of Scientific Discovery is published.
Barbara Wootton's Social Science and Social Pathology is published.
Kingsley Davis serves as president of ASA.
Barbara Wootton becomes president of the British Sociological Association.