# 1970s in sociology

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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.