1960s in sociology

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

 * Rachel Carson's Silent Spring is published.
 * Oliver Cox's Capitalism and American Leadership is published.
 * George Homans' Sentiments and Activities is published.
 * Roman Jakobson's Selected Writings is published.
 * Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is published.
 * Edmund Leach's Rethinking Anthropology is published.
 * C. Wright Mills' The Marxists is published.
 * Arnold Marshall Rose's Human Behaviour and Social Processes is published.
 * Richard Titmuss' Income Distribution and Social change is published.
 * Paul Lazarsfeld serves as president of the American Sociological Association.

Deaths

 * March 20: C. Wright Mills

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

 * Nildo Viana

Deaths

 * March 13: Corrado Gini

1966

 * Theodor Adorno's The Negative Dialect is published.
 * Theodor Adorno's Salmagundi is published.
 * Robert Adrey's The Central Imperative is published.
 * Raymond Aron's Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations is published.
 * Peter Berger's and Thomas Luckmann's The Social Construction of Reality is published.
 * James S. Coleman's Equality of Educational Opportunity is published.
 * Maurice Duverger's Political Sociology is published.
 * Michel Foucault's The Order of Things is published.
 * Jacques Lacan's Ecrits is published.
 * R.D. Laing's Interpersonal Perception: A Theory and a Method of Research is published.
 * Oscar Lewis' La Vida is published.
 * Barrington Moore Jr.'s Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy is published.
 * Talcott Parsons' Societies: Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives is published.
 * Karl Popper's Of Clouds and Clocks is published.
 * Bryan Wilson's Religion in a Secular Society is published.
 * Wilbert E. Moore serves as president of the ASA.

Deaths

 * April 14: George A. Lundberg
 * October 6: Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders
 * December 27: Ernest Burgess

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.