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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.