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sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

occurred in the 2000s.

2000

* Zygmunt Bauman's '' Liquid Modernity'' is published. * Morris Berman's ''The Twilight of American Culture'' is published. * Harriet Bradley's '' Social Inequalities: coming to terms with complexity'' 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 ...

' '' Runaway World'' is published. *

' '' The Third Way and Its Critics'' is published. * Stuart Hall's '' The Multicultural Question'' is published. * Bhikhu Parekh's '' Report of the Commission of the Future of multi-Ethnic Britain'' is published. *

Robert D. Putnam Robert David Putnam (born 1941) is an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics. He is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government. Putnam devel ...

's '' Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community'' is published. *

Diane Richardson Diane Richardson is an American basketball coach and currently the Head Coach of Temple Owls women's basketball team. Prior to coaching at Temple, she was head coach at Towson University from 2017 to 2022, an assistant coach and recruiting coordi ...

's '' Rethinking Sexuality'' 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 '' Theories of Race and Racism; A Reader'' is published. *

Anthony Vidler Anthony Vidler (born July 4, 1941, in Salisbury Plain, United Kingdom) is Professor at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union. He is an architectural historian and critic. Education Anthony Vidler received a B.A. and Dipl ...

' '' Warped Spaces'' is published. * Malcolm Waters' '' Inequality after Class'' is published. *

Linda Woodhead Linda Jane Pauline Woodhead (born 15 February 1964) is a British academic specialising in the religious studies and sociology of religion at King's College London Faculty of Arts and Humanities. She is best known for her work on religious cha ...

's and

Paul Heelas Paul Lauchlan Faux Heelas (born 1946) is a British sociologist and anthropologist. He is noted for work in the field of spirituality, religion and modernity, with special reference to 'New Age' spiritualities of life. Recent publications and cu ...

' '' Religion in Modern Times'' (ed.) is published.

2001

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 '' The Spirit of Terrorism'' 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 '' Origin of values: sociology and philosophy of beliefs'' is published. * Stan Cohen's '' States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering'' is published. *

Randy David Randolf "Randy" Siongco David (born January 8, 1946) is a Filipino journalist, sociologist, and public intellectual. He is a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He currently pens a weekly newspaper colu ...

's Reflections on Sociology and Philippine Society is published by the University of the Philippines Press. * Jay Demerath's '' Crossing the Gods: World Religions and Worldly Politics'' is published. *

David Frisby David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...

's '' Cityscapes of Modernity: Critical Explorations'' is published. * John B. Thompson's '' Political scandal : power and visibility in the media age'' 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 ...

serves as president of the

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2002

* Gargi Bhattacharyya's '' Sexuality and Society'' is published. *

Grace Davie Grace Riestra Claire Davie (born 1946) is a British sociologist who serves as professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Exeter. She is the author of the book ''Religion in Britain Since 1945: Believing Without Belonging''. Academic ...

's '' Europe: The Exceptional Case'' is published. * Clive Emsley's '' The History of Crime and Crime Control Institutions'' 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 '' Historical Ontology'' is published. * Stevi Jackson and Sue Scott's '' Gender: A Sociological Reader'' is published. *Mike Maguire's '' Crime Statistics: The Data Explosion and its Implications'' is published. *

David Nelken David Nelken is a Distinguished Professor of Legal Institutions and Social Change (Professore Ordinario, di chiara fama) Faculty of Political Science, University of Macerata and the Distinguished Visiting Research Professor, Faculty of Law, Car ...

's '' White Collar Crime'' is published. * Barbara F. Reskin serves as president of the

Deaths

*January 23 –

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 ...

*August 9 – Peter Neville *October 2 –

Heinz von Foerster Heinz von Foerster (German spelling: Heinz von Förster; November 13, 1911 – October 2, 2002) was an Austrian American scientist combining physics and philosophy, and widely attributed as the originator of Second-order cybernetics. He was twice ...

2003

Steve Bruce Stephen Roger Bruce (born 31 December 1960) is an English professional Manager (association football), football manager and former Football player, player who played as a centre-back. He most recently managed West Bromwich Albion F.C., West Br ...

's '' Politics and Religion'' is published. *

's Nation, Self, and Citizenship: An Invitation to Philippine Sociology is published and wins the National Book Award. * David Downes' and Paul Rock's '' Understanding deviance: a guide to the sociology of crime and rule breaking'' 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 '' Fads and Fallacies in the Social Sciences'' 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 Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 is published.

Deaths

*October 3 –

Neil Postman Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003) was an American author, educator, media theorist and cultural critic, who eschewed digital technology, including personal computers, mobile devices, and cruise control in cars, and was critical of ...

2004

* Eamonn Carrabine's ''

Criminology Criminology (from Latin , "accusation", and Ancient Greek , ''-logia'', from λόγος ''logos'' meaning: "word, reason") is the study of crime and deviant behaviour. Criminology is an interdisciplinary field in both the behavioural and so ...

'' is published. * Colin Crouch's ''

Post-Democracy The term ''post-democracy'' was used by Warwick University political scientist Colin Crouch in 2000 in his book ''Coping with Post-Democracy''. It designates states that operate by democratic systems (elections are held, governments fall, and ther ...

'' is published. * Paul Gilroy's '' After Empire: melancholia or convival culture'' is published. * David Goodhart's '' Discomfort of Strangers'' is published. *

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 '' Globalisation or Nothing'' is published. * Moisés Espírito Santo's ''Five thousand years of Culture at the West - Etno-History of the Popular Religion in the Region of Estremadura'' is published.

2005

* Colin Crouch's '' Capitalist diversity and change : recombinant governance and institutional entrepreneurs'' is published. *

Liu Xiaobo Liu Xiaobo (; 28 December 1955 – 13 July 2017) was a Chinese writer, literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who called for political reforms and was involved in campaigns to end communist one-par ...

's '' The Future of Free China in our Life'' is published by Labor Reform Foundation. *

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 Dark Side of Democracy Explaining Ethnic Cleansing'' is published. * John B. Thompson's ''Books in the digital age: the transformation of academic and higher education publishing in Britain and the United States'' 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 Purchase of Intimacy'' is published.

Anniversaries

*The 50th birthday of Louis Hartz's ''The Liberal Tradition in America'', first published in 1955.

Deaths

*April 23: Andre Gunder Frank

2006

* Morris Berman's ''Dark Ages America'' is published. * Geoff Dencha's, Kate Gavron's and Michael Young's '' The new East End : kinship, race and conflict'' 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 '' Phenomenological sociology : insight and experience in modern society'' is published. * Serge Latouche's '' How do we learn to want less?The globe downshifted'' is published. * Richard Sennett's ''

The Culture of the New Capitalism ''The Culture of the New Capitalism'' is a 2006 book written by Richard Sennett about the economic situation of the time. In the book, Sennett covers politics, economics, sociology and psychology. Analysis Based on the author's Castle Lectures a ...

'' is published. *

William Outhwaite William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...

's '' The Future of Society'' is published.

2007

* R. Burrows, M. Savage's '' The Coming Crisis of Empirical Sociology'' is published. * Frances Fox Piven serves as president of the

2008

Arne L. Kalleberg Arne Lindeman Kalleberg (born February 9, 1949) is a Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center. He is also an adjunct professor in the Kenan ...

serves as president of the

2009

* Patricia Hill Collins serves as the 100th president of the

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