1970s in sociology

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

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.
 * 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.
 * Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death is published.
 * Daniel Bell's The Coming of Post-Industrial Society is published.
 * 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.
 * Friedrich Hayek's Law, Legislation and Liberty 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.
 * 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; the Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century is published.
 * Oliver Cox's Jewish Self-Interest in Black Pluralism is published.
 * Erving Goffman's Frame Analysis is published.
 * Nicos Poulantzas' Classes in contemporary Capitalism is published.
 * Wilhelm Reich's The Sexual Revolution is published.
 * Immanuel Wallerstein's The Modern World-System (Volume 1): Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century is published.
 * Peter M. Blau serves as president of the ASA.
 * Last meeting of the London Positivist Society

Deaths

 * March 6 - Ernest Becker

1975

 * Randall Collins' Conflict Sociology 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.
 * Charles Tilly's (ed.) The Formation of National States in Western Europe 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 They 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.
 * John Milton Yinger serves as president of the ASA.

Deaths

 * March 26 - Will Herberg
 * June 18 - Ali Shariati

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 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.
 * Reestablishment of Sociology in China.
 * 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.
 * 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.