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Aung San Suu Kyi Aung San Suu Kyi (; ; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar (equivalent to a prime minister) and Minister of Foreign Affairs from ...
's ''Burma and India: Some aspects of intellectual life under colonialism'' is published. *
Zygmunt Bauman Zygmunt Bauman (; 19 November 1925 – 9 January 2017) was a Polish sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship. He emigrate ...
's ''Thinking Sociologically'' is published. *
Raymond Boudon Raymond Boudon (27 January 1934 – 10 April 2013) was a sociologist, philosopher and Professor in the Paris-Sorbonne University. Career With Alain Touraine, Michel Crozier and Pierre Bourdieu, Raymond Boudon is one of the leading French soci ...
's ''The Art of Self-Persuasion: The Social Explanation of False Beliefs'' is published. * James Coleman's ''Foundations of Social Theory'' is published. *
Troy Duster Troy Smith Duster (born July 11, 1936) is an American sociologist with research interests in the sociology of science, public policy, race and ethnicity and deviance. He is a Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology at University of California, Berke ...
's ''Backdoor To Eugenics'' is published. *
Ian Hacking Ian MacDougall Hacking (born February 18, 1936) is a Canadian philosopher specializing in the philosophy of science. Throughout his career, he has won numerous awards, such as the Killam Prize for the Humanities and the Balzan Prize, and been ...
's ''The Taming of Chance'' is published. *Nicole Lapierre's ''The Silence of the Memory ''is published and wins the Bulzoni Editore Special Award. * M. Rainer Lepsius' and
Wolfgang J. Mommsen Wolfgang Justin Mommsen (; 5 November 1930 – 11 August 2004) was a German historian. He was the twin brother of historian Hans Mommsen. Biography Wolfgang Mommsen was born in Marburg, the son of the historian Wilhelm Mommsen and great-grands ...
's (ed.) ''Max Weber. Briefe 1906-1908'' is published and wins the
European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences The European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences ''(Premio Europeo Amalfi per la Sociologia e le Scienze Sociali)'' is a prestigious Italian award in the social sciences. Established in 1987 on the initiative of the Section for Sociolog ...
. *Chen Liangjin's ''Social Developmental Mechanisms and Social Security Functions'' is published. *
Alejandro Portes Alejandro Portes (born October 13, 1944) is a Cuban-American sociologist. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and of the Board of Trustees and the Scientific Council at the IMDEA Social Sciences ...
' and Rubén Rumbaut's ''Immigrant America: A Portrait'' is published. * John B. Thompson's ''Ideology and Modern Culture: Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communications'' is published. *
Paul Willis Paul Willis (born 1945) is a British social scientist known for his work in sociology and cultural studies. Paul Willis' work is widely read in the fields of sociology, anthropology, and education, his work emphasizing consumer culture, sociali ...
's ''Common culture: symbolic work at play in the everyday cultures of the young'' is published. *
William Julius Wilson William Julius Wilson (born December 20, 1935) is an American sociologist. He is a professor at Harvard University and author of works on urban sociology, race and class issues. Laureate of the National Medal of Science, he served as the 80th P ...
serves as the president of the
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Naomi Wolf Naomi Rebekah Wolf (born November 12, 1962) is an American feminist author, journalist and conspiracy theorist. Following her first book '' The Beauty Myth'' (1991), she became a leading spokeswoman of what has been described as the third wave ...
's The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women is published.


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Hans Speier Hans Speier (February 3, 1905 – February 17, 1990) was a German-American sociologist who worked with the United States Government as a Germany expert both during and after World War II. He also published several books on German politics and cul ...
*August 1:
Norbert Elias Norbert Elias (; 22 June 1897 – 1 August 1990) was a German sociologist who later became a British citizen. He is especially famous for his theory of civilizing/decivilizing processes. Biography Elias was born on 22 June 1897 in Bresla ...
*October 22:
Louis Althusser Louis Pierre Althusser (, ; ; 16 October 1918 – 22 October 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the École normale supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy. Althusser ...


1991

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Cornelius Castoriadis Cornelius Castoriadis ( el, Κορνήλιος Καστοριάδης; 11 March 1922 – 26 December 1997) was a Greek-FrenchMemos 2014, p. 18: "he was ... granted full French citizenship in 1970." philosopher, social critic, economist, p ...
' ''Philosophy, Politics and Autonomy'' is published. *
Louis Dumont Louis Charles Jean Dumont (11 August 1911 – 19 November 1998) was a French anthropologist. Dumont was born in Thessaloniki, in the Salonica Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. He taught at Oxford University during the 1950s, and was then dire ...
's ''L'idéologie allemande. France-Allemagne et retour (''later translated as ''German ideology: from France to Germany and back)'' is published and wins the
European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences The European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences ''(Premio Europeo Amalfi per la Sociologia e le Scienze Sociali)'' is a prestigious Italian award in the social sciences. Established in 1987 on the initiative of the Section for Sociolog ...
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Clive Emsley Clive Emsley (4 August 1944 – 5 October 2020) was a British historian and criminologist. He was a research director and lecturer at the Open University. Biography After his first degree at the University of York, where he was one of the init ...
's ''English police: a political and social history'' is published. *Ron Eyerman's and Andrew Jamison's ''Social movements: a cognitive approach'' is published. * Mike Featherstone's, Mike Hepworth's and Bryan Turner's '' The body: social process and cultural theory'' is published. *Ann Game's Undoing the Social: T''owards a deconstructive sociology'' is published. *
Steven Goldberg Steven Goldberg (born 14 October 1941) is a native of New York City and chaired the Department of Sociology at the City College of New York (CCNY) from 1988 until his retirement in 2008. He is most widely known for his theory of patriarchy, which ...
's ''When Wish Replaces Thought: Why So Much of What You Believe Is False'' is published. *
Anthony Giddens Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens (born 18 January 1938) is an English sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is considered to be one of the most prominent modern sociologists and is t ...
' ''Modernity and Self Identity'' is published. *
Donna Haraway Donna J. Haraway is an American Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department and Feminist Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a prominent scholar in the field of science and technology studies. Sh ...
's ''
A Cyborg Manifesto   "A Cyborg Manifesto" is an essay written by Donna Haraway and published in 1985 in the '' Socialist Review (US)''. In it, the concept of the cyborg represents a rejection of rigid boundaries, notably those separating "human" from "animal" and "hu ...
'' is published. *Nicos Panayiotou Mouzelis's ''Back to Sociological Theory: The Construction of Social Orders'' is published. *Philippe Sarasin's ''Die Stadt der Bürger'' is published and wins the Bulzoni Editore Special Award. *
Immanuel Wallerstein Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (; September 28, 1930 – August 31, 2019) was an American sociologist and economic historian. He is perhaps best known for his development of the general approach in sociology which led to the emergence of his worl ...
's ''Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of Nineteenth Century Paradigms'' *Stanley Lieberson serves as president of the
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Henri Lefebvre Henri Lefebvre ( , ; 16 June 1901 – 29 June 1991) was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist, best known for pioneering the critique of everyday life, for introducing the concepts of the right to the city and the production of so ...
*August 21:
Oswald von Nell-Breuning Oswald von Nell-Breuning (8 March 1890 – 21 August 1991) was a Roman Catholic theologian and sociologist. Born in Trier, Germany into an aristocratic family, Nell-Breuning was ordained in 1921 and appointed Professor of Ethics at the Sa ...


1992

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Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu (; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence i ...
's and
Loïc Wacquant Loïc J. D. Wacquant (; born 1960) is a sociologist and social anthropologist, specializing in urban sociology, urban poverty, racial inequality, the body, social theory and ethnography. Wacquant is a Professor of Sociology and Researc ...
's ''An invitation to Reflexive Sociology'' is published. *
Fei Xiaotong Fei Xiaotong or Fei Hsiao-tung (November 2, 1910 – April 24, 2005) was a Chinese anthropologist and sociologist. He was a pioneering researcher and professor of sociology and anthropology; he was also noted for his studies in the study o ...
's Xingxing chong xingxing: Xiangzhen Fazhan Lunshu 《行行重行行》 (Travel, travel, and more travel: On Rural Development) is published. *
Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (Hebrew: שמואל נח אייזנשטדט‎ 10 September 1923, Warsaw – 2 September 2010, Jerusalem) was an Israeli sociologist and writer. In 1959 he was appointed to a teaching post in the sociology department ...
's ''Jewish civilization: the Jewish historical experience in a comparative perspective'' is published. *
Harvie Ferguson Harvie Ferguson was Professor of Sociology at the University of Glasgow until his retirement in 2011. He has written extensively on the development of cultural, philosophical, and psychological aspects of the development of western modernity. H ...
's ''Religious transformation in Western society: The End of Happiness'' is published. * Stuart Hall's,
David Held David Jonathan Andrew Held (27 August 1951 – 2 March 2019) was a British political scientist who specialised in political theory and international relations. He held a joint appointment as Professor of Politics and International Relations, and w ...
's and Tony Mcgrew's ''Modernity and its Futures'' is published. * David Lockwood's ''Solidarity and schism: the problem of disorder in Durkheimian and Marxist sociology'' is published. *
Niklas Luhmann Niklas Luhmann (; ; December 8, 1927 – November 6, 1998) was a German sociologist, philosopher of social science, and a prominent thinker in systems theory. Biography Luhmann was born in Lüneburg, Free State of Prussia, where his father's fa ...
's ''Observations of modern trends'' is published. *
Sal Restivo Sal Restivo (born 1940) is a sociologist/anthropologist. Work Restivo is a leading contributor to science studies and in particular to the sociology of mathematics. His current work focuses on the sociology of mind and brain, and the sociology o ...
's ''Mathematics in Society and History'' is published. * Chris Shilling's '' The Body and Social Theory'' is published. *Richard Skellington's and Paulette Morris's (eds.) ''Race in Britain Today'' is published. *
Alain Touraine Alain Touraine (; born 3 August 1925) is a French sociology, sociologist. He is research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the ''Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux''. Touraine was an important ...
's ''
Critique of Modernity ''Critique of Modernity'' (french: Critique de la modernité) is a 1992 book by the French sociologist Alain Touraine. It attempts to offer a critique of modernity which is neither antimodern nor postmodern, but proposes a rebuilt modernity base ...
'' is published. *Carlo Triglia's ''Sviluppo senza autonomia: effetti perversi delle politiche nel Mezzogiorno'' is published. * James Coleman serves as president of the
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(ASA)


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Thomas Bottomore Thomas Burton Bottomore (8 April 1929, England – 9 December 1992, Sussex, England) was a British Marxist sociologist. Bottomore was Secretary of the International Sociological Association from 1953 to 1959. He was the eighth president ...


1993

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Steven Goldberg Steven Goldberg (born 14 October 1941) is a native of New York City and chaired the Department of Sociology at the City College of New York (CCNY) from 1988 until his retirement in 2008. He is most widely known for his theory of patriarchy, which ...
's ''
Why Men Rule ''The Inevitability of Patriarchy: Why the Biological Difference Between Men and Women Always Produces Male Domination'' is a book by Steven Goldberg published by William Morrow and Company in 1973. The theory proposed by Goldberg is that Socia ...
'' is published. *
Jean-François Lyotard Jean-François Lyotard (; ; ; 10 August 1924 – 21 April 1998) was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist. His interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as epistemology and communication, the human body, modern art and ...
's ''Toward The Postmodern'' is published. *
Michael Mann Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5, 1943) is an American director, screenwriter, and producer of film and television who is best known for his distinctive style of crime drama. His most acclaimed works include the films ''Thief'' (1981), ' ...
's ''The Sources of Social Power'' (Volume 2) is published. *
Michel Maffesoli Michel Maffesoli (born 14 November 1944) is a French sociologist. He is a former pupil of Gilbert Durand and Julien Freund, and an emeritus professor at Paris Descartes University. His work touches upon the issue of community links and the pr ...
's ''Contemplation of the World (La Contemplation du monde): figures of community style'' is published. *
Douglas Massey Douglas Steven Massey (born October 5, 1952 in Olympia, Washington, United States) is an American sociologist. Massey is currently a professor of Sociology at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and i ...
's and Nancy Denton's ''American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass'' is published and wins the Distinguished Publication Award of the American Sociological Association. *
George Ritzer George Ritzer (born October 14, 1940) is an American sociologist, professor, and author who has mainly studied globalization, metatheory, patterns of consumption, and modern/postmodern social theory. His concept of McDonaldization draws upon Max ...
's ''
The McDonaldization of Society ''The McDonaldization of Society'' is a 1993 book by sociologist George Ritzer. Ritzer suggests that in the later part of the 20th century the socially-structured form of the fast-food restaurant has become the organizational force representing a ...
'' is published. *
Renato Rosaldo Renato Rosaldo (born 1941) is an American cultural anthropologist. He has done field research among the Ilongots of northern Luzon, Philippines, and he is the author of ''Ilongot Headhunting: 1883–1974: A Study in Society and History'' (1980) a ...
's ''Culture and Truth'' is published. *
Charles Tilly Charles Tilly (May 27, 1929 – April 29, 2008) was an American sociologist, political scientist, and historian who wrote on the relationship between politics and society. He was a professor of history, sociology, and social science at the Univ ...
's ''European Revolutions, 1492–1992'' is published and wins the
European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences The European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences ''(Premio Europeo Amalfi per la Sociologia e le Scienze Sociali)'' is a prestigious Italian award in the social sciences. Established in 1987 on the initiative of the Section for Sociolog ...
the next year. *
Cornel West Cornel Ronald West (born June 2, 1953) is an American philosopher, political activist, social critic, actor, and public intellectual. The grandson of a Baptist minister, West focuses on the role of race, gender, and class in American society and ...
's
Race Matters ''Race Matters'' is a social sciences book by Cornel West. The book was first published on April 1, 1993, by Beacon Press. The book analyzes moral authority and racial debates concerning skin color in the United States. The book questions matters ...
is published.


1994

*Nigel Dodd's ''The Sociology of Money'' is published. *
Anthony Giddens Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens (born 18 January 1938) is an English sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is considered to be one of the most prominent modern sociologists and is t ...
' ''Beyond Left and Right'' is published. *Deborah Lupton's '' Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body in Western Societies'' is published. * Angela McRobbie's ''Postmodernism and popular culture'' is published. *
Ralph Miliband Ralph Miliband (born Adolphe Miliband; 7 January 1924 – 21 May 1994) was a British sociologist. He has been described as "one of the best known academic Marxists of his generation", in this manner being compared with E. P. Thompson, Eric Ho ...
's ''Socialism for a Sceptical Age'' is published. *
Charles Murray Charles Murray may refer to: Politicians *Charles Murray, 1st Earl of Dunmore (1661–1710), British peer *Charles Murray (author and diplomat) (1806–1895), British author and diplomat *Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore (1841–1907), Scotti ...
's ''
The Bell Curve ''The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life'' is a 1994 book by psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and political scientist Charles Murray, in which the authors argue that human intelligence is substantially influenced by b ...
'' is published. *
Viviana Zelizer Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer (born January 19, 1946) is an American sociologist and the Lloyd Cotsen '50 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. She is an economic sociologist who focuses on the attribution of cultural and moral meaning to ...
's ''The Social Meaning of Money'' is published.


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Christopher Lasch Robert Christopher Lasch (June 1, 1932 – February 14, 1994) was an American historian, moralist and social critic who was a history professor at the University of Rochester. He sought to use history to demonstrate what he saw as the pervasiven ...


1995

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Ulrich Beck Ulrich Beck (15 May 1944 – 1 January 2015) was a German sociologist, and one of the most cited social scientists in the world during his lifetime. His work focused on questions of uncontrollability, ignorance and uncertainty in the modern a ...
's ''Ecological Politics in the Age of Risk'' is published. *
Walden Bello Walden Flores Bello (born November 11, 1945) is a Filipino academic, environmentalist, and social activist who served as a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines. He is an international adjunct professor at Binghamton Univers ...
founded
Focus on the Global South Focus, or its plural form foci may refer to: Arts * Focus or Focus Festival, former name of the Adelaide Fringe arts festival in South Australia Film *''Focus'', a 1962 TV film starring James Whitmore * ''Focus'' (2001 film), a 2001 film based ...
in Bangkok, Thailand. *
Raymond Boudon Raymond Boudon (27 January 1934 – 10 April 2013) was a sociologist, philosopher and Professor in the Paris-Sorbonne University. Career With Alain Touraine, Michel Crozier and Pierre Bourdieu, Raymond Boudon is one of the leading French soci ...
's ''Le Juste et le vrai'' is published. *
Colin Crouch Colin John Crouch, (born 1 March 1944) is an English sociologist and political scientist. He coined the post-democracy concept in 2000 in his book '' Coping with Post-Democracy''. Colin Crouch is currently Emeritus Professor at the Universit ...
's ''Reinventing collective action: from the global to the local'' is published. *
François Furet François Furet (; 27 March 1927 – 12 July 1997) was a French historian and president of the Saint-Simon Foundation, best known for his books on the French Revolution. From 1985 to 1997, Furet was a professor of French history at the University ...
's ''The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century'' is published''.'' *
Ian Hacking Ian MacDougall Hacking (born February 18, 1936) is a Canadian philosopher specializing in the philosophy of science. Throughout his career, he has won numerous awards, such as the Killam Prize for the Humanities and the Balzan Prize, and been ...
's '' Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory'' is published. *
David Hollinger David Albert Hollinger (born April 25, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois) is the Preston Hotchkis Professor of History, emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His specialties are American intellectual history and American ethnoracial histor ...
's ''Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalisms'' is published. *
Christopher Lasch Robert Christopher Lasch (June 1, 1932 – February 14, 1994) was an American historian, moralist and social critic who was a history professor at the University of Rochester. He sought to use history to demonstrate what he saw as the pervasiven ...
's ''The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy'' is published. *Sarah Nettleton's ''Sociology of Health and Illness'' is published. *
Charles Tilly Charles Tilly (May 27, 1929 – April 29, 2008) was an American sociologist, political scientist, and historian who wrote on the relationship between politics and society. He was a professor of history, sociology, and social science at the Univ ...
's ''Popular contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834 is published. * John B. Thompson's ''The Media and Modernity: A social Theory of the Media'' is published. *Ken Morrison's Marx, Durkheim, Weber: Formations of Modern Social Thought is published.


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*November 4:
Gilles Deleuze Gilles Louis René Deleuze ( , ; 18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volu ...


1996

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Les Back Les Back (born 17 December 1962) is a professor of sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London and an author. Biography Les Back was born in Croydon in south London and studied at both undergraduate and postgraduate level at Goldsmiths, Univer ...
's ''New Ethnicities and Urban culture'' is published. *Tim Dant's ''Fetishism and the social value of objects'' is published. * Stuart Hall's and Paul Du Gay's ''Questions of cultural identity'' is published. *
Stevi Jackson Stevi Jackson (born 23 June 1951), is an academic and writer working in the field of gender and sexuality. She has been Professor of Women's studies at the University of York, England since 1998,University of York, 2014 and is Director of the Un ...
's and Sue Scott's ''Feminism and Sexuality'' is published. *
Richard Jenkins Richard Dale Jenkins (born May 4, 1947) is an American actor who is well known for his portrayal of deceased patriarch Nathaniel Fisher on the HBO funeral drama series '' Six Feet Under'' (2001–2005). He began his career in theater at the Tri ...
' ''Social Identity'' is published. *David Lee's and Bryan Turner's ''Conflicts about Class: Debating Inequality in Late Industrialism'' is published. *
Serge Latouche Serge Latouche (; ; born 12 January 1940) is a French emeritus professor of economics at the University of Paris-Sud. He holds a degree in political sciences, philosophy and economy. Work Latouche is a specialist in North-South economic and c ...
's ''The Westernisation of the World'' is published. *Andrew W. Metcalfe's and Ann Game's ''Passionate Sociology'' is published. *
Michel Maffesoli Michel Maffesoli (born 14 November 1944) is a French sociologist. He is a former pupil of Gilbert Durand and Julien Freund, and an emeritus professor at Paris Descartes University. His work touches upon the issue of community links and the pr ...
's '' The Time of the Tribes: The Decline of Individualism in Mass Society'' is published in English translation. *Anna Pollert's ''Gender and Class Revisited; or, the Poverty of 'Patriarchy is published. *Cyril Smith's ''Marx at the millennium'' is published. *John Solomos' and
Les Back Les Back (born 17 December 1962) is a professor of sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London and an author. Biography Les Back was born in Croydon in south London and studied at both undergraduate and postgraduate level at Goldsmiths, Univer ...
's ''Racism and Society'' is published. * Mobilization: The International Quarterly Review of Social Movement Research is first published by Hank Johnston.


1997

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Jean Baudrillard Jean Baudrillard ( , , ; 27 July 1929 – 6 March 2007) was a French sociologist, philosopher and poet with interest in cultural studies. He is best known for his analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, as w ...
's '' A Conjuration of Imbeciles'' is published. *
Ulrich Beck Ulrich Beck (15 May 1944 – 1 January 2015) was a German sociologist, and one of the most cited social scientists in the world during his lifetime. His work focused on questions of uncontrollability, ignorance and uncertainty in the modern a ...
's ''The Reinvention of Politics'' is published. * Michael Bury's ''Health and Illness in a changing society'' is published. * Stuart Hall's (ed.) ''Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Process'' is published. *
Niklas Luhmann Niklas Luhmann (; ; December 8, 1927 – November 6, 1998) was a German sociologist, philosopher of social science, and a prominent thinker in systems theory. Biography Luhmann was born in Lüneburg, Free State of Prussia, where his father's fa ...
's ''Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft (''translated as ''Theory of Society'') is published and wins the
European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences The European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences ''(Premio Europeo Amalfi per la Sociologia e le Scienze Sociali)'' is a prestigious Italian award in the social sciences. Established in 1987 on the initiative of the Section for Sociolog ...
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Beverley Skeggs Beverley Skeggs is a British Sociology, sociologist, noted as one of the foremost feminist sociologists in the world. Currently, she works as a "Distinguished Professor" in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University, developing a Center f ...
's ''Formations of Class and Gender: Becoming Respectable'' is published. *
Sylvia Walby Sylvia Theresa Walby (born 16 October 1953) is a British sociologist, currently Professor of Sociology, Director of the Violence and Society Centre at the City University of London. She has an Honorary Doctorate from Queen's University Belfas ...
's ''Gender Transformations'' is published. * Katherine Woodward's ''Identity and Difference'' is published. *
Slavoj Žižek Slavoj Žižek (, ; ; born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New Y ...
's ''
Multi-culturalism The term multiculturalism has a range of meanings within the contexts of sociology, political philosophy, and colloquial use. In sociology and in everyday usage, it is a synonym for " ethnic pluralism", with the two terms often used interchang ...
'' or ''The Cultural Logic of Multi-national Capitalism'' is published. *
Neil Smelser Neil Joseph Smelser (1930–2017) was an American sociologist who served as professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was an active researcher from 1958 to 1994. His research was on collective behavior, sociological theo ...
serves as president of the
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. *Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is published. *
Nathan Glazer Nathan Glazer (February 25, 1923 – January 19, 2019) was an American sociologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and for several decades at Harvard University. He was a co-editor of the now-defunct policy journal ''The Pu ...
's We Are All Multiculturalists Now is published.


1998

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Ulrich Beck Ulrich Beck (15 May 1944 – 1 January 2015) was a German sociologist, and one of the most cited social scientists in the world during his lifetime. His work focused on questions of uncontrollability, ignorance and uncertainty in the modern a ...
's ''World Risk Society'' is published. *
Manuel Castells Manuel Castells Oliván (; ; born 9 February 1942) is a Spanish sociology, sociologist. He is well known for his authorship of a trilogy of works, entitled The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. He is a scholar of the information soc ...
published the final volume of his '' The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture'' trilogy *
Anthony Giddens Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens (born 18 January 1938) is an English sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is considered to be one of the most prominent modern sociologists and is t ...
' '' The Third Way'' is published. *
Ian Hacking Ian MacDougall Hacking (born February 18, 1936) is a Canadian philosopher specializing in the philosophy of science. Throughout his career, he has won numerous awards, such as the Killam Prize for the Humanities and the Balzan Prize, and been ...
's ''Mad Travellers'' is published. *Ron Eyerman's and Andrew Jamison's ''Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century'' is published. *
Serge Latouche Serge Latouche (; ; born 12 January 1940) is a French emeritus professor of economics at the University of Paris-Sud. He holds a degree in political sciences, philosophy and economy. Work Latouche is a specialist in North-South economic and c ...
's ''L'Autre Afrique: Entre don et marché'' is published. *
Richard Sennett Richard Sennett (born 1 January 1943) is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and former University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. He is currently a Senior Fellow of the Center on Capitalis ...
's ''The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism'' is published. *
Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu (; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence i ...
's La Domination masculine is published. * Gordon Marshall's and
John Scott John Scott may refer to: Academics * John Scott (1639–1695), English clergyman and devotional writer * John Witherspoon Scott (1800–1892), American minister, college president, and father of First Lady Caroline Harrison * John Work Scott (180 ...
's A Dictionary of Sociology is published.


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Niklas Luhmann Niklas Luhmann (; ; December 8, 1927 – November 6, 1998) was a German sociologist, philosopher of social science, and a prominent thinker in systems theory. Biography Luhmann was born in Lüneburg, Free State of Prussia, where his father's fa ...


1999

*David Byrne's '' Social Exclusion '' is published. *
Colin Crouch Colin John Crouch, (born 1 March 1944) is an English sociologist and political scientist. He coined the post-democracy concept in 2000 in his book '' Coping with Post-Democracy''. Colin Crouch is currently Emeritus Professor at the Universit ...
's ''Social Change in Western Europe'' is published. * Máirtín Mac an Ghaill's ''Contemporary Racisms and Ethnicities: Social and Cultural Transformations'' is published. *
Germaine Greer Germaine Greer (; born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the radical feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century. Specializing in English and women's literatu ...
's ''The Whole Woman'' is published. *
Ian Hacking Ian MacDougall Hacking (born February 18, 1936) is a Canadian philosopher specializing in the philosophy of science. Throughout his career, he has won numerous awards, such as the Killam Prize for the Humanities and the Balzan Prize, and been ...
's ''The Social Construction of What?'' is published. *
Charles Murray Charles Murray may refer to: Politicians *Charles Murray, 1st Earl of Dunmore (1661–1710), British peer *Charles Murray (author and diplomat) (1806–1895), British author and diplomat *Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore (1841–1907), Scotti ...
's ''The Underclass Revisited'' is published *
Susan Moller Okin Susan Moller Okin (July 19, 1946 – March 3, 2004) was a liberal feminist political philosopher and author. Life Okin was born in 1946 in Auckland, New Zealand. She attended Remuera Primary School and Remuera Intermediate and Epsom Girls' G ...
's ''Is Multiculturalism Bad For Women?'' is published. * Anne Phillips' '' Which equalities matter?'' is published. *
Alejandro Portes Alejandro Portes (born October 13, 1944) is a Cuban-American sociologist. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and of the Board of Trustees and the Scientific Council at the IMDEA Social Sciences ...
serves as president of the
American Sociological Association The American Sociological Association (ASA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology. Founded in December 1905 as the American Sociological Society at Johns Hopkins University by a group of fif ...
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Alain Touraine Alain Touraine (; born 3 August 1925) is a French sociology, sociologist. He is research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the ''Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux''. Touraine was an important ...
's ''Comment sortir du libéralisme'' is published. *
Zygmunt Bauman Zygmunt Bauman (; 19 November 1925 – 9 January 2017) was a Polish sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship. He emigrate ...
's Liquid Modernity is published. *The
Polish Sociological Review The ''Polish Sociological Review'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Polish Sociological Association. It covers diverse areas of sociology, especially social theory, social structure, social change, culture and politic ...
published Institutionalization of Sociology § MUCHA, JANUSZ. "Institutionalization of Sociology." ''Polish Sociological Review'', no. 123, 1998, pp. 235–246. ''JSTOR'', www.jstor.org/stable/41274681.


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