1990s in sociology
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1990
- Aung San Suu KyiAung San Suu KyiAung San Suu Kyi, AC is a Burmese opposition politician and the General Secretary of the National League for Democracy. In the 1990 general election, her National League for Democracy party won 59% of the national votes and 81% of the seats in Parliament. She had, however, already been detained...
's Burma and India: Some aspects of intellectual life under colonialism is published. - Zygmunt BaumanZygmunt BaumanZygmunt Bauman is a Polish sociologist who, since 1971, has resided in England after being driven out of Poland by an anti-Semitic campaign, engineered by the Communist government which he had previously supported...
's Thinking Sociologically is published. - James Coleman's Foundations of Social Theory is published.
- Troy DusterTroy DusterTroy Duster is a sociologist with research interests in the sociology of science, public policy, race and ethnicity and deviance. He is a Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley and professor of sociology and director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at...
's Backdoor To Eugenics is published. - Mike FeatherstoneMike FeatherstoneMike Featherstone is Director of the Theory, Culture & Society Centre and research professor of sociology and communications. Featherstone was research professor at Nottingham Trent University, UK and is visiting professor in Barcelona, Geneva, Kyoto, Recife, São Paulo, Tokyo and Vancouver...
's, Mike Hepworth's and Bryan TurnerBryan S. Turner (sociologist)Bryan S. Turner is a British and Australian sociologist . He was born in January 1945 to working class parents in Birmingham, England. Turner has led a remarkably nomadic life having held university appointments in England, Scotland, Australia, Germany, Holland, Singapore and the United States...
's The body : social process and cultural theory is published. - Ian HackingIan HackingIan Hacking, CC, FRSC, FBA is a Canadian philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of science.- Life and works :...
's The Taming of Chance is published. - Ian HackingIan HackingIan Hacking, CC, FRSC, FBA is a Canadian philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of science.- Life and works :...
's Scientific Revolutions is published. - Nicole Lapierre's The Silence of the Memory is published and wins the Bulzoni Editore Special Award.
- M. Rainer Lepsius' and Wolfgang J. Mommsen's (ed.) Max WeberMax WeberKarl Emil Maximilian "Max" Weber was a German sociologist and political economist who profoundly influenced social theory, social research, and the discipline of sociology itself...
is published and wins the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social SciencesEuropean Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social SciencesThe European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences is a prestigious Italian award in the social sciences...
. - Chen Liangjin's Social Developmental Mechanisms and Social Security Functions is published.
- Niklas LuhmannNiklas LuhmannNiklas Luhmann was a German sociologist, and a prominent thinker in sociological systems theory.-Biography:...
's The Science of Society is published. - John B. ThompsonJohn Thompson (sociologist)John Brookshire Thompson is a Sociology professor at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Jesus College. He has studied the influence of the media in the formation of modern societies, a subject on which he is one of the few social theorists to focus...
's Ideology and Modern Culture: Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communications is published. - Paul WillisPaul Willis (cultural theorist)Paul Willis is a leading British cultural theorist.He was born in Wolverhampton and received his education at the University of Cambridge and at the University of Birmingham. He worked at Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and subsequently at the University of Wolverhampton. He was a...
's Common culture : symbolic work at play in the everyday cultures of the young is published. - William Julius WilsonWilliam Julius WilsonWilliam Julius Wilson is an American sociologist. He worked at the University of Chicago 1972-1996 before moving to Harvard....
serves as the 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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1991
- Theodor Adorno's Culture Industry ReconsideredCulture Industry ReconsideredCulture Industry Reconsidered was written by Theodor W. Adorno, a German philosopher. He was born on September 11, 1903. He belonged to the Frankfurt School of social theory. The Frankfurt School takes its name from the Institute for Social Research established in Frankfurt, Germany in 1923....
is published. - Cornelius CastoriadisCornelius CastoriadisCornelius Castoriadis was a Greek philosopher, social critic, economist, psychoanalyst, author of The Imaginary Institution of Society, and co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group.-Early life in Athens:...
' Philosophy, Politics and Autonomy is published. - William H Chafe's The Unfinished Journey is published.
- Louis DumontLouis Dumont (anthropologist)Louis Dumont was a French anthropologist. He was an associate professor at Oxford University during the 1950s, and director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris...
's German ideology : from France to Germany and back is published and wins the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social SciencesEuropean Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social SciencesThe European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences is a prestigious Italian award in the social sciences...
. - Clive EmsleyClive EmsleyClive Emsley is a British historian and criminologist. He is a research director and lecturer at the Open University.-Biography:...
's English police : a political and social history is published. - Ron Eyerman's and Andrew Jamison's Social movements : a cognitive approach is published.
- Ann Game's Towards a deconstructive sociology 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 When Wish Replaces Thought: Why So Much of What You Believe Is False is published. - Harvie FergusonHarvie FergusonHarvie Ferguson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Glasgow. He has written extensively on the development of cultural, philosophical, and psychological aspects of the development of western modernity....
's Religious transformation in Western society : the end of happiness 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...
' Modernity and Self Identity is published. - Donna HarawayDonna HarawayDonna J. Haraway is currently a Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States...
's A Cyborg Manifesto is published. - Nicos Panayiotou Mouzelis's Back to Sociological Theory: The Construction of Social Orders is published.
- Philippe Sarasin's Die Stadt der Bürger is published and wins the Bulzoni Editore Special Award.
- Stanley Lieberson 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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1992
- 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 and Loic WacquantLoïc WacquantLoïc Wacquant is a sociologist, specializing in urban sociology, urban poverty, racial inequality, the body, social theory and ethnography....
's An invitation to Reflexive Sociology is published. - Fei XiaotongFei XiaotongFei Xiaotong, or Fei Hsiao-Tung was a pioneering Chinese researcher and professor of sociology and anthropology; he was also noted for his studies in the study of China's ethnic groups as well as a social activist...
's Xingxing chong xingxing 《行行重行行》 (Travel, travel, and more travel) is published. - Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt's Jewish civilization : the Jewish historical experience in a comparative perspective 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, David HeldDavid HeldDavid Held is a British political theorist active in the field of international relations. He will be chair of politics and international relations at Durham University from January 2012 and is currently Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Centre for the Study of...
's and Tony Mcgrew's Modernity and its Futures 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 New Ethnicites is published. - David LockwoodDavid LockwoodDavid Lockwood is a sociologist.His book, The Blackcoated Worker, sought to analyse the changes in the stratification position of the clerical worker by using a framework based on Max Weber's distinction between market and work situations...
's Solidarity and schism : the problem of disorder in Durkheimian and Marxist sociology is published. - Niklas LuhmannNiklas LuhmannNiklas Luhmann was a German sociologist, and a prominent thinker in sociological systems theory.-Biography:...
's Observations of modern trends is published. - Sal RestivoSal RestivoSal Restivo is a leading contributor to science studies and in particular to the sociology of mathematical knowledge. His current work focuses on the sociology and anthropology of mind and brain, and the sociology of god and religion. He has also done work in the sociology of social and sociable...
's Mathematics in Society and History is published. - Richard Skellington's and Paulette Morris's (eds.) Race in Britain Today is published.
- Carlo Triglia's Sviluppo senza autonomia : effetti perversi delle politiche nel Mezzogiorno is published.
- James Coleman serves as president of the American Sociological AssociationAmerican 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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1993
- 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 Why Men Rule 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 Towards The Postmodern is published. - Michael MannMichael Mann (sociologist)Michael Mann is a British-born professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles and Visiting Research Professor at Queen's University Belfast. Mann holds dual British and US citizenships. He received his B.A. in Modern History from the University of Oxford in 1963 and his...
's The Sources of Social Power (Volume 2) 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 Contemplation of the World: figures of community style is published. - Douglas MasseyDouglas MasseyDouglas S. Massey is an American sociologist. Massey is currently a professor of Sociology at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and is an adjunct professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania...
's and Nancy Denton's American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass is published and wins the Distinguished Publication Award of the American Sociological Association. - Ralph MilibandRalph MilibandRalph Miliband , born Adolphe Miliband, was a Belgian-born British sociologist known as a prominent Marxist thinker...
's Socialism for a Sceptical Age is published. - George RitzerGeorge RitzerGeorge Ritzer is a sociologist who studies American patterns of consumption, globalization, metatheory, and modern and postmodern social theory...
's The McDonaldization of SocietyThe McDonaldization of SocietyThe McDonaldization of Society is a 1993 book by sociologist George Ritzer.In the book, Ritzer took central elements of the work of Max Weber, expanded and updated them, and produced a critical analysis of the impact of social structural change on human interaction and identity...
is published. - Renato RosaldoRenato Rosaldo-Life:He graduated from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in 1971.He is emeritus professor at Stanford University.He teaches at New York University, and is a New York Institute for the Humanities Fellow....
's Culture and Truth 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 European Revolutions, 1492–1992 is published and wins the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social SciencesEuropean Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social SciencesThe European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences is a prestigious Italian award in the social sciences...
the next year.
1994
- 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 Art of self-persuasion : the social explanation of false beliefs is published. - Nigel Dodd's The Sociology of Money is published.
- Clifford GeertzClifford GeertzClifford James Geertz was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology, and who was considered "for three decades...the single most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States." He served until...
's The Uses of Diversity 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...
' Beyond Left and Right is published. - Deborah Lupton's Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body in Western Societies is published.
- Angela McRobbieAngela McRobbieAngela McRobbie is a British cultural theorist, feminist and commentator. She combines the study of different dimensions of youth culture with a commentary on development in cultural theory and politics.-Biography:...
's Postmodernism and popular culture is published. - Charles MurrayCharles Murray (author)Charles Alan Murray is an American libertarian political scientist, author, columnist, and pundit working as a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, DC...
's The Bell CurveThe Bell CurveThe Bell Curve is a best-selling and controversial 1994 book by the Harvard psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and political scientist Charles Murray...
is published. - Viviana Zeliver's The Social Meaning of Money is published.
1995
- Ulrich BeckUlrich BeckUlrich Beck is a German sociologist who holds a professorship at Munich University and at the London School of Economics.-Life:...
's Ecological Politics in the Age of Risk is published. - Walden BelloWalden BelloWalden Bello is a Filipino author, academic, and political analyst. He is a professor of sociology and public administration at the University of the Philippines Diliman, as well as executive director of Focus on the Global South...
founded Focus on the Global SouthFocus on the Global SouthFocus on the Global South is an international, non-governmental organisation, based in Bangkok, Thailand since its creation in 1995.Its founding director is sociologist Walden Bello, and it is affiliated with the Social Research Institute of Chulalongkorn University...
in Bangkok, Thailand. - 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 Le Juste et le vrai is published. - Colin Crouch's Reinventing collective action : from the global to the local is published.
- Francois FuretFrançois Furet-Biography:Born in Paris on 27 March 1927, into a wealthy family, François Furet was a brilliant student who graduated from the Sorbonne with the highest honors and soon decided on a life of research, teaching and writing. He received his education at the Lycée Janson de Sailly and at the faculty...
's The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century 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 Nationalism Observed is published. - Ian HackingIan HackingIan Hacking, CC, FRSC, FBA is a Canadian philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of science.- Life and works :...
's Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of MemoryRewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of MemoryRewriting the Soul is a book by the Canadian philosopher Ian Hacking. The book offers an account of the formative influences that shape people’s understandings of their own lives and their understanding of the lives of the people around them...
is published. - David HollingerDavid HollingerDavid Hollinger is the Preston Hotchkis Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. His specialty is in American intellectual history. His source book, The American Intellectual Tradition, is amongst the most widely used textbooks in college undergraduate courses focusing on...
's Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalisms is published. - Christopher LaschChristopher LaschChristopher Lasch was a well-known American historian, moralist, and social critic....
's The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy is published. - Sarah Nettleton's Sociology of Health and IllnessSociology of health and illnessThe Sociology of Health and Illness examines the interaction between society and health. The objective of this topic is to see how social life has an impact on morbidity and mortality rate, and vice versa...
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 Popular contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834 is published. - John B. ThompsonJohn Thompson (sociologist)John Brookshire Thompson is a Sociology professor at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Jesus College. He has studied the influence of the media in the formation of modern societies, a subject on which he is one of the few social theorists to focus...
's The Media and Modernity : A social Theory of the Media is published.
1996
- Les BackLes BackLes Back is a professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London and an author.-Biography:Les Back was born in Croydon in south London and studied at both undergraduate and postgraduate level at Goldsmiths, University of London. He received a PhD in social anthropology in 1991...
's New Ethnicities and Urban cultureis published. - Tim Dant's Fetishism and the social value of objects 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 Paul Du Gay's Questions of cultural identity is published. - Stevi JacksonStevi JacksonStevi Jackson started writing on feminist topics in 1973. She describes her research as an attempt to explain and theorise her own experience of being a heterosexual woman. She explicitly states throughout her work that she is a heterosexual feminist working within a materialist framework...
's and Sue ScottSue Scott (sociologist)Sue Scott is a British sociologist, Professor of Sociology at Glasgow Caledonian University and currently also serving as the university's Pro Vice-Chancellor. She served as President of the British Sociological Association from 2007 to 2009...
's Feminism and Sexuality is published. - Richard Jenkins' Social IdentitySocial identityA social identity is the portion of an individual's self-concept derived from perceived membership in a relevant social group. As originally formulated by Henri Tajfel and John Turner in the 1970s and 80s, social identity theory introduced the concept of a social identity as a way in which to...
is published. - David Lee's and Bryan TurnerBryan S. Turner (sociologist)Bryan S. Turner is a British and Australian sociologist . He was born in January 1945 to working class parents in Birmingham, England. Turner has led a remarkably nomadic life having held university appointments in England, Scotland, Australia, Germany, Holland, Singapore and the United States...
's Conflicts about Class: Debating Inequality in Late Industrialism is published. - Serge LatoucheSerge LatoucheSerge Latouche is a French emeritus professor at the University of Paris-Sud and a critic of the consumer society.-Books:...
's The Westernisation of the World is published. - Andrew W. Metcalfe's and Ann Game's Passionate Sociology 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 Time of Tribes - the Decline of Individualism in Mass Society is published. - Anna Pollert's The Poverty of Patriarchy is published.
- Alejandro PortesAlejandro PortesAlejandro Portes is a prominent Cuban-American sociologist. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1970. He is currently chair of the department of sociology at Princeton University and a member of the National Academy of Science, and of the Board of Trustees...
' and Rubén Rumbaut's Immigrant America: A Portrait is published. - Cyril Smith (marxist)'s Marx at the millennium is published.
- John Solomos' and Les BackLes BackLes Back is a professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London and an author.-Biography:Les Back was born in Croydon in south London and studied at both undergraduate and postgraduate level at Goldsmiths, University of London. He received a PhD in social anthropology in 1991...
's Racism and Society is published. - Bryan TurnerBryan S. Turner (sociologist)Bryan S. Turner is a British and Australian sociologist . He was born in January 1945 to working class parents in Birmingham, England. Turner has led a remarkably nomadic life having held university appointments in England, Scotland, Australia, Germany, Holland, Singapore and the United States...
's The Body and Society is published. - Mobilization: The International Quarterly Review of Social Movement ResearchMobilization: The International Quarterly Review of Social Movement ResearchMobilization is an academic journal that publishes original research and academic reviews of books concerned mainly with sociological research on protests, social movements, and collective behavior....
is first published by Hank Johnston.
1997
- 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 A Conjuration of Imbeciles is published. - Ulrich BeckUlrich BeckUlrich Beck is a German sociologist who holds a professorship at Munich University and at the London School of Economics.-Life:...
's The Reinvention of Politics is published. - Michael Bury's Health and Illness in a changing society 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 (ed.) Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Process is published. - Niklas LuhmannNiklas LuhmannNiklas Luhmann was a German sociologist, and a prominent thinker in sociological systems theory.-Biography:...
's The Society of Society is published and wins the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social SciencesEuropean Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social SciencesThe European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences is a prestigious Italian award in the social sciences...
. - Charles MurrayCharles Murray (author)Charles Alan Murray is an American libertarian political scientist, author, columnist, and pundit working as a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, DC...
's IQ and Economic Success is published. - Chris Shilling's The Body and Social Theory is published.
- Beverley SkeggsBeverley SkeggsBeverley Skeggs was born in Middlesbrough and studied at University of York , Keele University . She has worked at Crewe and Alsager College of Higher Education , Worcester College of Higher Education , University of York...
's Formations of Class and Gender: Becoming Respectable is published. - Sylvia WalbySylvia WalbySylvia Walby OBE, is one of the world's leading authorities on gender. She is a British sociologist, currently Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University...
's Gender Transformations is published. - Katherine Woodward's Identity and Difference is published.
- Slavoj ŽižekSlavoj ŽižekSlavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher, critical theorist working in the traditions of Hegelianism, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He has made contributions to political theory, film theory, and theoretical psychoanalysis....
's Multi-culturalism or The Cultural Logic of Multi-national Capitalism is published. - Neil SmelserNeil SmelserNeil Joseph Smelser is an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was an active researcher from 1958 to 1994. His research has been on collective behavior....
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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1998
- Ulrich BeckUlrich BeckUlrich Beck is a German sociologist who holds a professorship at Munich University and at the London School of Economics.-Life:...
's World Risk Society is published. - Manuel CastellsManuel CastellsManuel Castells is a sociologist especially associated with information society and communication research....
' The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture 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 Third Way is published. - Ian HackingIan HackingIan Hacking, CC, FRSC, FBA is a Canadian philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of science.- Life and works :...
's Mad Travellers is published. - Ron Eyerman's and Andrew Jamison's Music and social movements : mobilizing traditions in the twentieth century is published.
- Serge LatoucheSerge LatoucheSerge Latouche is a French emeritus professor at the University of Paris-Sud and a critic of the consumer society.-Books:...
's Other Africa, between gift and market 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 Corrosion of character : the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism is published. - Alain TouraineAlain TouraineAlain Touraine is a French sociologist born in Hermanville-sur-Mer. He is research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux . He is best known for being the originator of the term "post-industrial society"...
's Comment sortir du libéralisme is published.
1999
- David Byrne's Social ExclusionSocial exclusionSocial exclusion is a concept used in many parts of the world to characterise contemporary forms of social disadvantage. Dr. Lynn Todman, director of the Institute on Social Exclusion at the Adler School of Professional Psychology, suggests that social exclusion refers to processes in which...
is published. - Colin Crouch's Social Change in Western Europe is published.
- Mairtin Mac An GhaillMáirtín Mac an GhaillMáirtín Mac an Ghaill is Professor in Sociology at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of The Making of Men: Masculinities, Sexuality and Schooling and Contemporary Racisms and ethnicities ....
's Contemporary racisms and ethnicities 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 Whole Woman is published. - Ian HackingIan HackingIan Hacking, CC, FRSC, FBA is a Canadian philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of science.- Life and works :...
's The Social Construction of What? is published. - Charles MurrayCharles Murray (author)Charles Alan Murray is an American libertarian political scientist, author, columnist, and pundit working as a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, DC...
's The Underclass Revisited is published. - Susan Moller OkinSusan Moller OkinSusan Moller Okin was a liberal feminist political philosopher and author.- Works :In 1979 she published Women in Western Political Thought, in which she details the history of the perceptions of women in western political philosophy.Her 1989 book Justice, Gender, and the Family is a critique of...
's Is Multiculturalism Bad For Women? is published. - Anne PhillipsAnne PhillipsAnne Phillips is Professor of Political and Gender Theory at the London School of Economics , where she is based at the Gender Institute and Government Department.-Profile:...
' Which equalities matter? is published. - Alejandro PortesAlejandro PortesAlejandro Portes is a prominent Cuban-American sociologist. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1970. He is currently chair of the department of sociology at Princeton University and a member of the National Academy of Science, and of the Board of Trustees...
serves as president of the American Sociological AssociationAmerican 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...