1960s in sociology

Other topics in 1960s:
  • Anthropology
  • Comics
  • Fashion
  • Motorsport
  • Music
  • Science and technology
  • Television

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

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

Deaths

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 published.
  • 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 published.
  • William Fielding Ogburn's On Cultural and Social Change is published.
  • Louis Wirth's On Cities and Social Life is published.

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

Deaths

1966

Deaths

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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