1970s in sociology

The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1970s.

Contents 1 1970 2 1971 2.1 Deaths 3 1972 4 1973 5 1974 6 1975 7 1976 8 1977 9 1978 10 1979

1970

• Robert Adrey's Social Contract is published.
• Jean Baudrillard's The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures is published.
• Thomas R. Dye's and L. Harmon Zeigler's Irony of democracy is published.
• Michel Foucault's The Order of Discourse is published.
• Alvin Ward Gouldner's The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology is published.
• Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch is published.
• Donald MacRae's New Society is published.
• Nicos Poulantzas' Fascism and Dictatorship is published.
• John Rex's Race relations in sociological theory is published.
• Richard Sennett's Families Against the City: Middle Class Homes of Industrial Chicago, 1872-1890 is published.
• Richard Titmuss' The Gift Relationship is published.

1971

• Erving Goffman's Relations in Public is published.
• György Lukács' History and Class Consciousness (last edition) is published.
• Frank Parkin's Class Inequality and Political Order: Social Stratification in Capitalist and Communist Societies is published.
• Talcott Parsons' The System of Modern Societies is published.
• Frances Fox Piven's and Richard Cloward's Regulating the poor; the functions of public welfare is published.
• Henry S. Shryock's and Jacob S. Siegel's The Methods and Materials of Demography is published.
• William H. Sewell serves as president of the ASA.

Deaths

June 4 - György Lukács

1972

• Stanley Cohen's Folk Devils and Moral Panics is published.
• Andre Gunder Frank's Lumpenbourgeoisie: Lumpendevelopment is published.
• Karl Popper's Objective Knowledge is published.
• Wilhelm Reich's The Sexual Revolution is published.
• Michael Young's Is equality a dream is published.
• William J. Goode serves as president of the ASA.

1973

• Jean Baudrillard's The Mirror of Production is published.
• Daniel Bell's The Coming of Post-Industrial Society is publiished.
• Raymond Boudon's Mathematical structures of social mobility is published.
• James Coleman's The Mathematics of Collective Activity is published.
• Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt's Traditional patrimonialism and modern neopatrimonialism is published.
• Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt's Tradition, change, and modernity is published.
• Alvin Ward Gouldner's For Sociology is published.
• David V. Glass' Numbering the People is published.
• Steven Goldberg's The Inevitability of Patriarchy is published.
• Jacques Lacan's The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis is published.
• John Rex's Discovering sociology : studies in sociological theory and method is published.
• Nicos Poulantzas' Classes in contemporary Capitalism is published.
• Peter Willmott's and Michael Young's Symmetrical family; a study of work and leisure in the London region is published.

1974

• Raymond Boudon's Education, opportunity, and social inequality : changing prospects in Western society is published.
• Harry Braverman's Labour and Monopoly Capital is published.
• Randall Collins' Conflict Sociology is published.
• Oliver Cox's Jewish Self-Interest and Black Pluralism is published.
• Erving Goffman's Frame Analysis is published.
• Charles Tilly's (ed.) The Formation of national States in Western Europe is published.
• Peter M. Blau serves as president of the ASA.
• Last meeting of the London Positivist Society

1975

• Norbert Elias' The Society of Individuals is published.
• Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish is published.
• Paul Feyerabend's Against Method is published.
• Ian Hacking's The Emergence of Probability is published.
• Ian Hacking's Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy? is published.
• Nicos Poulantzas' Crisis of Dictatorships is published.
• John Westergaard's and Henrietta Resler's Class in a capitalist society : a study of contemporary Britain is published.

1976

• Jean Baudrillard's Symbolic exchange and Death is published.
• Thomas R. Dye's Who's running America? : Institutional leadership in the United States is published.
• Michel Foucault's The Will to Knowledge is published.
• Anthony Giddens' The New Rules of the Sociological Method is published.
• Morris Janowitz's Social Control and the Welfare State is published.
• Edmund Leach's Culture and Communication is published.
• Stuart Hall's and Tony Jefferson's (eds.) Resistance through Rituals is published.
• Roy Wallis' The Road to Total Freedom is published.

1977

• Colin Crouch's Class conflict and the industrial relations crisis : compromise and corporatism in the policies of the British state is published.
• Frances Fox Piven's and Richard Cloward's Poor People's Movements: Why the Succeed, How they Fail is published.
• Michael Th. Greven's Parties and political rule: the interdependence of internal-party order and democracy in the FRG is published.
• Christopher Lasch's Haven in a Heartless World is published.
• Karl Polanyi's The Livelihood of Man is published.

1978

• Arnaldo Bagnasco's, Marcello Messori's and Carlo Trigilia's Problematiche dello sviluppo italiano is published.
• Paul Feyerabend's Science In A Free Society is published.
• Ernest Gellner's State and Society in Soviet Thought is published.
• Stuart Hall's, Charles Critcher's, Tony Jefferson's, Brian Robert's and John Clarke's Policing the Crisis is published.
• Morris Janowitz's The Last Half-Century is published.
• Nicos Panayiotou Mouzelis's Modern Greece Facets of Underdevelopment is published.
• Nicos Poulantzas' State, Power and Socialism is published.
• Amos H. Hawley serves as president of the ASA.

1979

• Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste is published.
• Michael Burawoy's Manufacturing Consent is published.
• Ralf Dahrendorf's Life Chances is published.
• Chinese communist leader Deng Xiaoping noted the need for more studies of the Chinese society and supported the reestablishment of sociology in China.
• Friedrich Hayek's Law, Legislation and Liberty is published.
• Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism is published.
• Jean-François Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition is published.
• Michel Maffesoli's The Present Conquest is published.
• Michel Maffesoli's Total Violence: Essay on Political Anthropology is published.
• Karl Popper's Objective Knowledge is published.
• Theda Skocpol's States and Social Revolutions is published.
• Viviana Zelizer's Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance Policies in the United States is published.
• Hubert M. Blalock, Jr. serves as president of the ASA.