1950s (sociology)
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[edit] 1950
- Theodor Adorno's The Authoritarian Personality is published.
- George Homans's The Human Group is published.
- Thomas Humphrey Marshall's Citizenship and Social Class.
- Richard Titmuss' The Problems of Social Policy is published.
- Thomas Humphrey Marshall launches the British Journal of Sociology.
[edit] 1951
- Theodor Adorno's Minima Moralia is published.
- Maurice Duverger's Political Parties is published.
- Theodor Geiger's Social Mobility within the Danish Middle-Class is published.
- Rosa Luxemburg's The Accumulation of Capital is published.
- C. Wright Mills' White Collar is published.
- Talcott Parsons' The Social System is published.
- Robert C. Angell serves as president of the ASA.
- Society for the Study of Social Problems is founded.
- British Sociological Association is founded by Morris Ginsberg and others
[edit] 1952
- Hans Jurgen Eysenck's Scientific Study of Personality is published.
- Melville J. Herskovits's Economic Anthropology: A study in Comparative Economics is published.
- Robert E. Park's Human Communities is published.
- Talcott Parsons' and Edward Shils' Towards a general theory of action is published.
- Alfred Radcliffe-Brown's The Structure and Function of Primitive Society is published.
- Dorothy Swaine Thomas' The Salvage is published.
- Dorothy Swaine Thomas serves as the first woman president of the American Sociological Association.
[edit] 1953
- Morris Ginsberg's The Idea of Progress: A Revaluation is published.
- Morris Ginsberg's On the Diversity of Morals is published.
- Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female is published.
- C. Wright Mills' Character and Social Structure is published.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is published.
- Max Weber's The Sociology of Religion is published.
- Samuel A. Stouffer serves as president of the ASA.
[edit] 1954
- Lewis Coser's The Functions of Social Conflict is published.
- Hans Jurgen Eysenck's Psychology of Politics is published.
- David V. Glass' Social Mobility in Britain is published.
- David V. Glass' Trend and Pattern of Fertility in Britain is published.
- Alvin Ward Gouldner's Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy is published.
- Edmund Leach's Political Systems of Highland Burma is published.
- C. Wright Mills' Mass Society and Liberal Education is published.
- Siegfried Frederick Nadel's Nupe Religion is published.
- Talcott Parsons' Essays in Sociological Theory is published.
- Florian Znaniecki serves as president of the American Sociological Association.
- Thomas Humphrey Marshall becomes Chair of Sociology at the LSE
[edit] 1955
- Theodor Adorno's Prisms is published.
- Gordon Allport's Becoming is published.
- Milovan Djilas' The New Class is published.
- Lucien Goldmann's The Hidden God; a study of Pascal and Racine is published.
- George Alexander Kelly's The Psychology of Personal Constructs is published.
- Paul Lazarsfeld's Personal Influence is published.
- Herbert Marcuse's Eros and Civilization is published.
- Joan Woodward's The Dockworker is published.
- Barbara Wootton's Foundations of Wage Policy is published.
- Leopold Von Weise retires as chairperson of the German Society for Sociology and is succeeded by Helmuth Plessner.
[edit] 1956
- Vere Gordon Childe's Man Makes Himself is published.
- Viola Klein's and Alva Myrdal's Women's Two Roles: Home and Work is published.
- David Lockwood's Some Remarks on "The Social System" is published.
- Charles Wright Mills's The Power Elite is published.
- Pitirim Sorokin's Fads and Foibles in Modern Sociology and Related Sciences is published.
- Otto Stammer's Functions in the Party Unit is published.
- Asher Tropp's School teachers : the growth of the teaching profession in England and Wales from 1800 to the present day is published.
- Max Weber's The Soteriology of the Underprivileged is published.
- November 4 - The use of force by the Soviet union to destroy the Hungarian Uprising turns many doctrinal Marxists away from the Marxist-Leninist model.
[edit] 1957
- Hans Jurgen Eysenck's Dynamics of Anxiety and Hysteria is published.
- Edward Franklin Frazier's Black Bourgeoisie is published.
- Terrence Morris's The Criminal Area: A study in Ecology is published.
- Stanislaw Ossowski's Class Structure in the Social Consciousness is published.
- Karl Polanyi's Trade and Markets in the Early Empires is published.
- Karl Popper's The Poverty of Historicism is published.
- Alfred Radcliffe-Brown's A Natural Science of Society is published.
- Jean-Paul Sartre's The Problem of Method is published.
- Victor Turner's Schism and Continuity in an African Society is published.
- Karl Wittfogel's Oriental Despotism: A comparative Study of Total Power is published.
- Michael Young's and Peter Willmott's Family and kinship in East London
- Revised edition of Robert K. Merton's Social Theory and Social Structure is published.
- Robert K. Merton serves as president of the ASA.
[edit] 1958
- Simone De Beauvoir's The Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter is published.
- Georges Gurvitch's The Spectrum of Time is published.
- Fritz Heider's The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations is published.
- David Lockwood's Blackcoated worker : a study in class consciousness is published.
- Helen Merrell Lynd's On Shame and the Search for Identity is published.
- Gunnar Myrdal's Beyond the Welfare State is published.
- Irene Taeuber's The Population of Japan is published.
- Richard Titmuss' Essays on the Welfare State is published.
- Michael Young's The Rise of the Meritocracy, 1870–2023: An Essay On Education and Equality is published.
- the Jewish Journal of Sociology is established in London, Maurice Freedman becomes the first editor.
[edit] 1959
- 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.
- Helmuth Plessner retires as chairperson of the German Society for Sociology and is succeeded by Theodor Adorno
