1970s in sociology
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1970
- Robert Adrey's Social ContractSocial contractThe social contract is an intellectual device intended to explain the appropriate relationship between individuals and their governments. Social contract arguments assert that individuals unite into political societies by a process of mutual consent, agreeing to abide by common rules and accept...
is published. - Jean BaudrillardJean BaudrillardJean Baudrillard was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism.-Life:...
's The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures is published. - Thomas R. DyeThomas R. DyeThomas R. Dye is the president of the Lincoln Center for Public Service . Dye is also an Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Florida State University and was formerly a McKenzie Professor of Government.-Academic background and preparation:Dye graduated from Pennsylvania State University...
's and L. Harmon Zeigler's Irony of democracy is published. - Michel FoucaultMichel FoucaultMichel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...
's The Order of Discourse is published. - Alvin Ward GouldnerAlvin Ward GouldnerAlvin Ward Gouldner was born on July 29th, 1920, in New York and died on December 15th, 1980. He was professor of sociology at Washington University in St...
's The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology is published. - Germaine GreerGermaine GreerGermaine Greer is an Australian writer, academic, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century....
's The Female EunuchThe Female EunuchThe Female Eunuch is a book first published in 1970 that became an international bestseller and an important text in the feminist movement. The author, Germaine Greer, became well known in broadcast media of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and her home of Australia...
is published. - Donald MacRaeDonald MacRaeDonald Alexander MacRae was a Canadian astronomer.Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia he was the Chair of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Toronto and Director of the David Dunlap Observatory from 1965 to 1978. He was one of a few Canadians who were early Ph.D...
's New Society is published. - Nicos PoulantzasNicos PoulantzasNicos Poulantzas was a Greek Marxist political sociologist. In the 1970s, Poulantzas was known, along with Louis Althusser, as a leading Structural Marxist and, while at first a Leninist, eventually became a proponent of eurocommunism. He is most well known for his theoretical work on the state...
' Fascism and Dictatorship is published. - John RexJohn RexJohn Rex is a British sociologist born in Port Elizabeth in 1925. He was radicalised after working for the South African Bantu Affairs Administration and moved to Britain...
's Race relations in sociological theory is published. - Richard SennettRichard SennettRichard Sennett is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University...
's Families Against the City: Middle Class Homes of Industrial Chicago, 1872-1890 is published. - Richard TitmussRichard TitmussRichard Morris Titmuss was a pioneering British social researcher and teacher. He founded the academic discipline of Social Administration and held the founding chair in the subject at the London School of Economics.His books and articles of the 1950s helped to define the characteristics of...
' The Gift Relationship is published.
1971
- Erving GoffmanErving GoffmanErving Goffman was a Canadian-born sociologist and writer.The 73rd president of American Sociological Association, Goffman's greatest contribution to social theory is his study of symbolic interaction in the form of dramaturgical perspective that began with his 1959 book The Presentation of Self...
's Relations in Public is published. - György Lukács' History and Class ConsciousnessHistory and Class ConsciousnessHistory and Class Consciousness is a book by Georg Lukács, written in 1923. Class consciousness, as described by Lukács, is opposed to any psychological conception of consciousness, which forms the basis of individual or mass psychology . According to Lukács, each social class has a determined...
(last edition) is published. - Frank ParkinFrank ParkinDr. Frank Parkin was a British sociologist and novelist. He was a professor emeritus at the University of Kent and editor of the Concepts in the Social Sciences series published by Open University Press.-Biography:...
's Class Inequality and Political Order: Social Stratification in Capitalist and Communist Societies is published. - Talcott ParsonsTalcott ParsonsTalcott Parsons was an American sociologist who served on the faculty of Harvard University from 1927 to 1973....
' The System of Modern Societies is published. - Frances Fox PivenFrances Fox PivenFrances Fox Piven is an American professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she has taught since 1982.-Life and education:...
's and Richard ClowardRichard ClowardRichard Andrew Cloward was an American sociologist and an activist. He influenced the Strain theory of criminal behavior and the concept of anomie, and was a primary motivator for the passage of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 known as "Motor Voter"...
'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. SewellWilliam H. SewellWilliam Hamilton Sewell was a United States sociologist and the Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1967-1968. He is known also as the father of another sociologist .-Biography:...
serves as president of the ASAAmerican Sociological AssociationThe American Sociological Association , founded in 1905 as the American Sociological Society , is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology by serving sociologists in their work and promoting their contributions to serve society.The ASA holds its...
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1972
- Stanley CohenStanley Cohen (sociologist)Professor Stanley Cohen is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics.-Life:Cohen was born in Johannesberg, South Africa in 1942. He grew up in South Africa and was an undergraduate at the University of Witwatersrand, studying Sociology and Social Work. He came to London in...
's Folk Devils and Moral Panics is published. - Andre Gunder FrankAndre Gunder FrankAndre Gunder Frank was a German-American economic historian and sociologist who promoted "dependency theory" after 1970 and "World Systems Theory" after 1984...
's Lumpenbourgeoisie: Lumpendevelopment is published. - Karl PopperKarl PopperSir Karl Raimund Popper, CH FRS FBA was an Austro-British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics...
's Objective Knowledge is published. - Wilhelm ReichWilhelm ReichWilhelm Reich was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, known as one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry...
's The Sexual Revolution is published. - Michael Young's Is equality a dream is published.
- William J. Goode serves as president of the ASAAmerican Sociological AssociationThe American Sociological Association , founded in 1905 as the American Sociological Society , is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology by serving sociologists in their work and promoting their contributions to serve society.The ASA holds its...
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1973
- Jean BaudrillardJean BaudrillardJean Baudrillard was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism.-Life:...
's The Mirror of ProductionThe Mirror of ProductionThe Mirror of Production is a 1973 book by Jean Baudrillard. It is a systematic critique of Marxism. Baudrillard's thesis is that Marx’s theory of historical materialism is too rooted in assumptions and values of political economy to provide a framework for radical action...
is published. - Daniel BellDaniel BellDaniel Bell was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor emeritus at Harvard University, best known for his seminal contributions to the study of post-industrialism...
's The Coming of Post-Industrial Society is publiished. - Raymond BoudonRaymond BoudonRaymond Boudon is a French sociologist.He is a Professor in the University of Paris-Sorbonne, and is a member of many important institutions: Académie des Sciences morales et politiques, Academia Europaea, British Academy, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, International Academy of Human...
'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 GouldnerAlvin Ward GouldnerAlvin Ward Gouldner was born on July 29th, 1920, in New York and died on December 15th, 1980. He was professor of sociology at Washington University in St...
's For Sociology is published. - David V. Glass' Numbering the People is published.
- Steven GoldbergSteven GoldbergSteven Goldberg is a native of New York City and was president of the sociology department at City College of New York from 1988 until his retirement...
's The Inevitability of PatriarchyThe Inevitability of PatriarchyThe Inevitability of Patriarchy is a book by Steven Goldberg published by William Morrow and Company in 1973. The theory proposed by Goldberg is that social institutions, that are characterised by male dominance, may be explained by biological differences between men and women , suggesting male...
is published. - Jacques LacanJacques LacanJacques Marie Émile Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who made prominent contributions to psychoanalysis and philosophy, and has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud". Giving yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, Lacan influenced France's...
's The Four Fundamental Concepts of PsychoanalysisThe Four Fundamental Concepts of PsychoanalysisThe Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis is the [1977] English translation of a 'transcription of the Seminar held by Jacques Lacan at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris between January and June 1964'....
is published. - John RexJohn RexJohn Rex is a British sociologist born in Port Elizabeth in 1925. He was radicalised after working for the South African Bantu Affairs Administration and moved to Britain...
's Discovering sociology : studies in sociological theory and method is published. - Nicos PoulantzasNicos PoulantzasNicos Poulantzas was a Greek Marxist political sociologist. In the 1970s, Poulantzas was known, along with Louis Althusser, as a leading Structural Marxist and, while at first a Leninist, eventually became a proponent of eurocommunism. He is most well known for his theoretical work on the state...
' 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 BoudonRaymond BoudonRaymond Boudon is a French sociologist.He is a Professor in the University of Paris-Sorbonne, and is a member of many important institutions: Académie des Sciences morales et politiques, Academia Europaea, British Academy, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, International Academy of Human...
's Education, opportunity, and social inequality : changing prospects in Western society is published. - Harry BravermanHarry BravermanHarry Braverman was an American Socialist, economist and political writer. He sometimes used the pseudonym Harry Frankel.Braverman was born on the 9th December 1920 in New York City...
's Labour and Monopoly Capital is published. - Randall CollinsRandall CollinsRandall Collins, Ph.D. is the Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the Advisory Editors Council of the Social Evolution & History Journal. He is considered to be one of the leading non-Marxist conflict theorists in the United...
' Conflict Sociology is published. - Oliver CoxOliver CoxOliver Cromwell Cox was a Trinidadian-American sociologist noted for his early Marxist viewpoint on Fascism. He is a member of the Chicago school of sociology-Education:...
's Jewish Self-Interest and Black Pluralism is published. - Erving GoffmanErving GoffmanErving Goffman was a Canadian-born sociologist and writer.The 73rd president of American Sociological Association, Goffman's greatest contribution to social theory is his study of symbolic interaction in the form of dramaturgical perspective that began with his 1959 book The Presentation of Self...
's Frame AnalysisFrame analysisFrame analysis is a multi-disciplinary social science research method used to analyze how people understand situations and activities...
is published. - Charles TillyCharles TillyCharles Tilly was an American sociologist, political scientist, and historian who wrote on the relationship between politics and society. He was the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University....
's (ed.) The Formation of national States in Western Europe is published. - Peter M. Blau serves as president of the ASAAmerican Sociological AssociationThe American Sociological Association , founded in 1905 as the American Sociological Society , is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology by serving sociologists in their work and promoting their contributions to serve society.The ASA holds its...
. - Last meeting of the London Positivist SocietyLondon Positivist SocietyThe London Positivist Society was a philosophical circle that met in London, England, between 1867 and 1974. In 1934 it merged with the English Positivist Committee...
1975
- Norbert EliasNorbert EliasNorbert Elias was a German sociologist of Jewish descent, who later became a British citizen.-Biography:...
' The Society of Individuals is published. - Michel FoucaultMichel FoucaultMichel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...
's Discipline and PunishDiscipline and PunishDiscipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison is a book by philosopher Michel Foucault. Originally published in 1975 in France under the title Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la Prison, it was translated into English in 1977. It is an interrogation of the social and theoretical mechanisms behind...
is published. - Paul FeyerabendPaul FeyerabendPaul Karl Feyerabend was an Austrian-born philosopher of science best known for his work as a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked for three decades . He lived a peripatetic life, living at various times in England, the United States, New Zealand,...
's Against MethodAgainst MethodAgainst Method is a book by Paul Feyerabend. In this work, Feyerabend argues that science is an anarchic enterprise. In the context of this work, the term anarchy refers to epistemological anarchy...
is published. - Ian HackingIan HackingIan Hacking, CC, FRSC, FBA is a Canadian philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of science.- Life and works :...
's The Emergence of Probability is published. - Ian HackingIan HackingIan Hacking, CC, FRSC, FBA is a Canadian philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of science.- Life and works :...
's Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy? is published. - Nicos PoulantzasNicos PoulantzasNicos Poulantzas was a Greek Marxist political sociologist. In the 1970s, Poulantzas was known, along with Louis Althusser, as a leading Structural Marxist and, while at first a Leninist, eventually became a proponent of eurocommunism. He is most well known for his theoretical work on the state...
' Crisis of Dictatorships is published. - John WestergaardJohn WestergaardJohn Westergaard was a stock analyst and founder of the Westergaard Fund. He also as political advisor to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.-Background:...
's and Henrietta Resler's Class in a capitalist society : a study of contemporary Britain is published.
1976
- Jean BaudrillardJean BaudrillardJean Baudrillard was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism.-Life:...
's Symbolic exchange and Death is published. - Thomas R. DyeThomas R. DyeThomas R. Dye is the president of the Lincoln Center for Public Service . Dye is also an Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Florida State University and was formerly a McKenzie Professor of Government.-Academic background and preparation:Dye graduated from Pennsylvania State University...
's Who's running America? : Institutional leadership in the United States is published. - Michel FoucaultMichel FoucaultMichel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...
's The Will to KnowledgeThe History of SexualityThe History of Sexuality is a three-volume series of books by French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault written between 1976 and 1984...
is published. - Anthony GiddensAnthony GiddensAnthony Giddens, Baron Giddens is a British sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is considered to be one of the most prominent modern contributors in the field of sociology, the author of at least 34 books, published in at least 29...
' The New Rules of the Sociological Method is published. - Morris JanowitzMorris JanowitzMorris Janowitz, was an American sociologist and professor who made major contributions to sociological theory, the study of prejudice, urban issues, and patriotism. He was one of the founders of military sociology and made major contributions, along with Samuel Huntington, to the establishment of...
's Social Control and the Welfare State is published. - Edmund LeachEdmund LeachSir Edmund Ronald Leach was a British social anthropologist of whom it has been said:"It is no exaggeration to say that in sheer versatility, originality, and range of writing he was and still is difficult to match among the anthropologists of the English speaking world".-Personal and academic...
's Culture and Communication is published. - Stuart HallStuart Hall (cultural theorist)Stuart Hall is a cultural theorist and sociologist who has lived and worked in the United Kingdom since 1951. Hall, along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams, was one of the founding figures of the school of thought that is now known as British Cultural Studies or The Birmingham School of...
's and Tony JeffersonTony JeffersonTony Jefferson is an American football safety. He currently attends the University of Oklahoma in his sophomore year. Jefferson was a 2010 Freshman All-American by College Football News, The Sporting News, and Big 12 Conference co-Defensive Freshman of the Year .Jefferson attended Eastlake High...
's (eds.) Resistance through Rituals is published. - Roy WallisRoy WallisRoy Wallis, was a sociologist and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the Queen's University Belfast. He is mostly known for his creation of the seven signs that differentiate a religious congregation from a sectarian church, which he created while researching the Scientology...
' The Road to Total FreedomThe Road to Total FreedomThe Road to Total Freedom: A Sociological Analysis of Scientology is a non-fiction book about Scientology by sociologist Roy Wallis. Originally published in 1976 by Heinemann, it was republished in 1977 by Columbia University Press. The original manuscript was the product of Wallis's doctoral...
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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 PivenFrances Fox PivenFrances Fox Piven is an American professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she has taught since 1982.-Life and education:...
's and Richard ClowardRichard ClowardRichard Andrew Cloward was an American sociologist and an activist. He influenced the Strain theory of criminal behavior and the concept of anomie, and was a primary motivator for the passage of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 known as "Motor Voter"...
'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 LaschChristopher LaschChristopher Lasch was a well-known American historian, moralist, and social critic....
's Haven in a Heartless World is published. - Karl PolanyiKarl PolanyiKarl Paul Polanyi was a Hungarian philosopher, political economist and economic anthropologist known for his opposition to traditional economic thought and his book The Great Transformation...
'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 FeyerabendPaul FeyerabendPaul Karl Feyerabend was an Austrian-born philosopher of science best known for his work as a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked for three decades . He lived a peripatetic life, living at various times in England, the United States, New Zealand,...
's Science In A Free Society is published. - Ernest GellnerErnest GellnerErnest André Gellner was a philosopher and social anthropologist, described by The Daily Telegraph when he died as one of the world's most vigorous intellectuals and by The Independent as a "one-man crusade for critical rationalism."His first book, Words and Things —famously, and uniquely...
's State and Society in Soviet Thought is published. - Stuart HallStuart Hall (cultural theorist)Stuart Hall is a cultural theorist and sociologist who has lived and worked in the United Kingdom since 1951. Hall, along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams, was one of the founding figures of the school of thought that is now known as British Cultural Studies or The Birmingham School of...
's, Charles Critcher's, Tony JeffersonTony JeffersonTony Jefferson is an American football safety. He currently attends the University of Oklahoma in his sophomore year. Jefferson was a 2010 Freshman All-American by College Football News, The Sporting News, and Big 12 Conference co-Defensive Freshman of the Year .Jefferson attended Eastlake High...
's, Brian Robert's and John ClarkeJohn Clarke-Canada:* John Clarke , Canadian political activist and founder of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty* John Clarke C.M., Canadian mountaineer, explorer and wilderness educator* John Clarke -Canada:* John Clarke (activist), Canadian political activist and founder of the Ontario Coalition...
's Policing the Crisis is published. - Morris JanowitzMorris JanowitzMorris Janowitz, was an American sociologist and professor who made major contributions to sociological theory, the study of prejudice, urban issues, and patriotism. He was one of the founders of military sociology and made major contributions, along with Samuel Huntington, to the establishment of...
's The Last Half-Century is published. - Nicos Panayiotou Mouzelis's Modern Greece Facets of Underdevelopment is published.
- Nicos PoulantzasNicos PoulantzasNicos Poulantzas was a Greek Marxist political sociologist. In the 1970s, Poulantzas was known, along with Louis Althusser, as a leading Structural Marxist and, while at first a Leninist, eventually became a proponent of eurocommunism. He is most well known for his theoretical work on the state...
' State, Power and Socialism is published. - Amos H. Hawley serves as president of the ASAAmerican Sociological AssociationThe American Sociological Association , founded in 1905 as the American Sociological Society , is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology by serving sociologists in their work and promoting their contributions to serve society.The ASA holds its...
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1979
- Pierre BourdieuPierre BourdieuPierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher.Starting from the role of economic capital for social positioning, Bourdieu pioneered investigative frameworks and terminologies such as cultural, social, and symbolic capital, and the concepts of habitus, field or location,...
's Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of TasteLa DistinctionLa Distinction is a book by French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu , based on Bourdieu's empirical research on French culture. Taken from studies conducted by Bourdieu in 1963 and concluded in 1967-68, the book was originally published in France in 1979...
is published. - Michael BurawoyMichael BurawoyMichael Burawoy is a British, sociological Marxist, best known as author of Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalisma study on work and organizations that has been translated into a number of languagesand as the leading proponent of public sociology...
's Manufacturing ConsentManufacturing ConsentManufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media , by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, is an analysis of the news media as business...
is published. - Ralf DahrendorfRalf DahrendorfRalf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, KBE, FBA was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician....
's Life ChancesLife chancesLife chances is a political theory of the opportunities each individual has to improve his or her quality of life. The concept was introduced by German sociologist Max Weber. It is a probabilistic concept, describing how likely it is, given certain factors, that an individual's life will turn out...
is published. - Chinese communist leader Deng XiaopingDeng XiaopingDeng Xiaoping was a Chinese politician, statesman, and diplomat. As leader of the Communist Party of China, Deng was a reformer who led China towards a market economy...
noted the need for more studies of the Chinese society and supported the reestablishment of sociology in China. - Friedrich HayekFriedrich HayekFriedrich August Hayek CH , born in Austria-Hungary as Friedrich August von Hayek, was an economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism and free-market capitalism against socialist and collectivist thought...
's Law, Legislation and LibertyLaw, Legislation and LibertyLaw, Legislation and Liberty is the 1973 magnum opus in three volumes by Nobel laureate economist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek. In it, Hayek further develops the philosophical principles he discussed earlier in The Road to Serfdom, The Constitution of Liberty, and other writings...
is published. - Christopher LaschChristopher LaschChristopher Lasch was a well-known American historian, moralist, and social critic....
's The Culture of NarcissismThe Culture of NarcissismThe Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations is a 1979 book by the cultural historian Christopher Lasch exploring the roots and ramifications of the normalizing of pathological narcissism in 20th century American culture using psychological, cultural, artistic and...
is published. - Jean-François LyotardJean-François LyotardJean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher and literary theorist. He is well known for his articulation of postmodernism after the late 1970s and the analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition...
's The Postmodern ConditionThe Postmodern ConditionThe Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge is a short but influential philosophy book by Jean-François Lyotard in which he analyzes the epistemology of postmodern culture as the end of 'grand narratives' or metanarratives, which he considers a quintessential feature of modernity. The book was...
is published. - Michel MaffesoliMichel MaffesoliMichel Maffesoli is a French sociologist of italian origin.He is a former pupil of Gilbert Durand and is at present a professor at the Paris Descartes University. Michel Maffesoli made a work around the issue of social link community, the prevalence of imagination and everyday life in contemporary...
's The Present Conquest is published. - Michel MaffesoliMichel MaffesoliMichel Maffesoli is a French sociologist of italian origin.He is a former pupil of Gilbert Durand and is at present a professor at the Paris Descartes University. Michel Maffesoli made a work around the issue of social link community, the prevalence of imagination and everyday life in contemporary...
's Total Violence: Essay on Political Anthropology is published. - Karl PopperKarl PopperSir Karl Raimund Popper, CH FRS FBA was an Austro-British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics...
's Objective Knowledge is published. - Theda SkocpolTheda SkocpolTheda Skocpol is an American sociologist and political scientist at Harvard University. She served from 2005 to 2007 as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She is influential in sociology as an advocate of the historical-institutional and comparative approaches, and well-known in...
's States and Social RevolutionsStates and Social RevolutionsStates and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China is a 1979 book by political scientist and sociologist Theda Skocpol, published by Cambridge University Press and explaining the causes of revolutions through the structural functionalism sociological paradigm...
is published. - Viviana ZelizerViviana ZelizerViviana A. Zelizer, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, is a prominent economic sociologist who focuses on the attribution of cultural and moral meaning to the economy. A constant theme in her work is economic valuation of the sacred, as found in such contexts as life insurance...
'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 ASAAmerican Sociological AssociationThe American Sociological Association , founded in 1905 as the American Sociological Society , is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology by serving sociologists in their work and promoting their contributions to serve society.The ASA holds its...
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