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The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1960s. The decade was a critical one for the publication of a large number of important works.

1960

• Raymond Aron's Main Currents in Sociological Thought is published.
• Simone de Beauvoir's The Prime of Life is published. ^[1]
• 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.

References

1. Bair, D. (1991). Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography. Touchstone book. Touchstone. p. 459. ISBN   978-0-671-74180-8 . Retrieved 2025-11-25.