The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1970s.

1970

Robert Adrey The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of ''Hrōþ, Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, prais ...

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Social Contract In moral and political philosophy, the social contract is an idea, theory, or model that usually, although not always, concerns the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual. Conceptualized in the Age of Enlightenment, it ...

'' is published.Ardrey, Robert. ''The Social Contract: A Personal Inquiry into the Evolutionary Sources of Order and Disorder.'' New York: Atheneum. 1970. Print *

Jean Baudrillard Jean Baudrillard (, ; ; – 6 March 2007) was a French sociology, sociologist and philosopher with an interest in cultural studies. He is best known for his analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, as well as hi ...

'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 Paul-Michel Foucault ( , ; ; 15 October 192625 June 1984) was a French History of ideas, historian of ideas and Philosophy, philosopher who was also an author, Literary criticism, literary critic, Activism, political activist, and teacher. Fo ...

's ''The Order of Discourse'' is published. *

Alvin Ward Gouldner Alvin Ward Gouldner (July 29, 1920 – December 15, 1980) was an American Sociology, sociologist, lecturer and radical activist. Early life Gouldner was born in New York City. He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration, B.B.A. degree fro ...

's ''The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology'' is published. *

Germaine Greer Germaine Greer (; born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and feminist, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminism movement in the latter half of the 20th century. Specializing in English and women's literature, she ...

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The Female Eunuch ''The Female Eunuch'' is a 1970 book by Germaine Greer that became an international bestseller and an important text in the feminist movement. Greer's thesis is that the "traditional" suburban, consumerist, nuclear family represses women sexual ...

'' is published. *Donald MacRae's ''

New Society ''New Society'' was a weekly magazine of social inquiry and social and cultural comment, published in the United Kingdom from 1962 to 1988. It drew on the disciplines of sociology, anthropology, psychology, human geography, social history and s ...

'' is published. *

Nicos Poulantzas Nicos Poulantzas ( ; 21 September 1936 – 3 October 1979) was a Greek-French Marxist political sociologist and philosopher. In the 1970s, Poulantzas was known, along with Louis Althusser, as a leading structural Marxist; while at first a Leni ...

' ''Fascism and Dictatorship'' is published. * John Rex's ''Race relations in sociological theory'' is published. *

Richard Sennett Richard Sennett (born 1 January 1943) is an American sociologist who 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 F ...

's ''Families Against the City: Middle Class Homes of Industrial Chicago, 1872-1890'' is published. *

Richard Titmuss Richard Morris Titmuss (16 October 1907 – 6 April 1973) was a British social researcher and teacher. He founded the academic discipline of social administration (now largely known in universities as social policy) and held the founding chair ...

' ''The Gift Relationship'' is published.

1971

Erving Goffman Erving Goffman (11 June 1922 – 19 November 1982) was a Canadian-born American sociologist, social psychologist, and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century". In 2007, '' The Time ...

's ''Relations in Public'' is published. *

György Lukács György Lukács (born Bernát György Löwinger; ; ; 13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, literary critic, and Aesthetics, aesthetician. He was one of the founders of Western Marxism, an inter ...

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History and Class Consciousness ''History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics'' () is a collection of essays by the Hungarian Marxist philosopher György Lukács, first published in 1923. It is a seminal work in the development of Western Marxism, moving beyo ...

'' (last edition) is published. * Frank Parkin's ''Class Inequality and Political Order: Social Stratification in Capitalist and Communist Societies'' is published. *

Talcott Parsons Talcott Parsons (December 13, 1902 – May 8, 1979) was an American sociologist of the classical tradition, best known for his social action theory and structural functionalism. Parsons is considered one of the most influential figures in soci ...

' ''The System of Modern Societies'' is published. *

Frances Fox Piven Frances Fox Piven (born October 10, 1932) is an American professor of political science and sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she has taught since 1982.

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Richard Cloward Richard Andrew Cloward (December 25, 1926 – August 20, 2001) was an American sociologist and activist. He influenced the Strain theory of criminal behavior and the concept of anomie, and was a primary motivator for the passage of the Nat ...

'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

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1972

* Stanley Cohen's

Folk Devils and Moral Panics ''Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers'' is a 1972 sociology book by Stanley Cohen. It was the first book to define the social theory of moral panic. See also * Folk devil * Moral entrepreneur * Mass psychogen ...

is published. *

Andre Gunder Frank Andre Gunder Frank (February 24, 1929 – April 25, 2005) was a German- American sociologist and economic historian who promoted dependency theory after 1970 and world-systems theory after 1984. He employed some Marxian concepts on polit ...

's Lumpenbourgeoisie: Lumpendevelopment is published. *

Karl Popper Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the ...

's ''Objective Knowledge'' is published. * Michael Young's ''Is equality a dream'' is published. * William J. Goode serves as president of the

1973

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The Mirror of Production ''The Mirror of Production'' () is a 1973 book by French sociologist and philosopher Jean Baudrillard. It is a systematic critique of Marxism. Baudrillard's thesis is that Karl Marx's theory of historical materialism is too rooted in assumptio ...

'' is published. *

Ernest Becker Ernest Becker (September 27, 1924 – March 6, 1974) was an American cultural anthropologist and author of the 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, '' The Denial of Death''. Biography Early life Ernest Becker was born in Springfield, Massachusett ...

's The Denial of Death is published. *

Daniel Bell Daniel Bell (May 10, 1919 – January 25, 2011) was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor at Harvard University, best known for his contributions to the study of post-industrialism. He has been described as "one of the leading ...

's ''The Coming of Post-Industrial Society'' 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 sociol ...

's ''Mathematical structures of social mobility'' is published. * James Coleman's ''The Mathematics of Collective Activity'' is published. *

Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (‎; 10 September 1923 – 2 September 2010) was an Israeli sociologist and writer. In 1959 he was appointed to a teaching post in the sociology department of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. From 1990 until his ...

's ''Traditional patrimonialism and modern neopatrimonialism'' is published. *

's ''Tradition, change, and modernity'' is published. *

's ''For Sociology'' is published. * David V. Glass' ''Numbering the People'' is published. *

Steven Goldberg Steven Brown Goldberg (14 October 1941 – 17 December 2022) was the chair of the Department of Sociology at the City College of New York from 1988 until his retirement in 2008. Goldberg was the son of Israel J. and Claire (''née'' Brown) Go ...

's '' The Inevitability of Patriarchy'' is published. *

Friedrich Hayek Friedrich August von Hayek (8 May 1899 – 23 March 1992) was an Austrian-born British academic and philosopher. He is known for his contributions to political economy, political philosophy and intellectual history. Hayek shared the 1974 Nobe ...

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Law, Legislation and Liberty ''Law, Legislation and Liberty'' () is a work in three volumes by Nobel laureate economist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek from 1973 to 1979. Background ''Law, Legislation and Liberty'' is a book by Hayek that was written from 196 ...

'' is published. *

Jacques Lacan Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (, ; ; 13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Sigmund Freud, Freud", Lacan gave The Seminars of Jacques Lacan, year ...

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The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis ''The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis'' is the 1978 English-language translation of a seminar held by Jacques Lacan. The original () was published in Paris by Le Seuil in 1973. The Seminar was held at the École Normale Supérieure in ...

'' 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

's ''Education, opportunity, and social inequality : changing prospects in Western society'' is published. *

Harry Braverman Harry Braverman (December 9, 1920 – August 2, 1976) Agitating during the Red Scare After serving in the shipbuilding industry during World War II, Braverman began to deepen his commitment to revolutionary struggle, joining the first Trotskyis ...

'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. *

's ''Frame Analysis'' is published. *

' ''Classes in contemporary Capitalism'' is published. *

Wilhelm Reich Wilhelm Reich ( ; ; 24 March 1897 – 3 November 1957) was an Austrian Doctor of Medicine, doctor of medicine and a psychoanalysis, psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud. The author of several in ...

's '' The Sexual Revolution'' is published. *

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 in sociology of world-systems approach."Wallerstein, Immanuel (1930– )." ...

'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

. *Last meeting of the

London Positivist Society The London Positivist Society was an Atheism, atheistic philosophical, Humanism, humanist, and political circle that met in London, England, between May 1867 and 1974. The conditions of membership originally included "emancipation from theology a ...

Deaths

March 6 Events Pre-1600 * 12 BCE – The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor. * 845 – The 42 Martyrs of Amorium are killed after refusing to convert to Islam. * 1204 &ndas ...

1975

Randall Collins Randall Collins (born July 29, 1941) is an American sociologist who has been influential in both his teaching and writing. He has taught in many notable universities around the world and his academic works have been translated into various langu ...

' ''Conflict Sociology'' is published. *

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Discipline and Punish ''Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison'' () is a 1975 book by French philosopher Michel Foucault. It is an analysis of the social and theoretical mechanisms behind the changes that occurred in Western penal systems during the modern ...

'' is published. *

Paul Feyerabend Paul Karl Feyerabend (; ; January 13, 1924 – February 11, 1994) was an Austrian philosopher best known for his work in the philosophy of science. He started his academic career as lecturer in the philosophy of science at the University of Bri ...

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Against Method ''Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge'' is a 1975 book by Austrian philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend. The central thesis of the book is that science should become an anarchic enterprise. In the context of the work, ...

'' is published. *

Ian Hacking Ian MacDougall Hacking (February 18, 1936 – May 10, 2023) was a Canadian philosopher specializing in the philosophy of science. Throughout his career, he won numerous awards, such as the Killam Prize for the Humanities and the Balzan Prize, ...

's ''The Emergence of Probability'' is published. *

's ''Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy?'' 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 Uni ...

's (ed.) ''The Formation of National States in Western Europe'' is published. *

' ''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

's ''Symbolic exchange and Death'' is published. * Thomas R. Dye's ''Who's running America? : Institutional leadership in the United States'' is published. *

's '' The Will to Knowledge'' 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 ...

' ''The New Rules of the Sociological Method'' is published. *

Morris Janowitz Morris Janowitz (October 22, 1919 – November 7, 1988) was an American sociologist and professor who made major contributions to sociological theory, the study of prejudice, urban issues, and patriotism. He was one of the founders of military s ...

's ''Social Control and the Welfare State'' is published. *

Edmund Leach Sir Edmund Ronald Leach FRAI FBA (7 November 1910 – 6 January 1989) was a British social anthropologist and academic. He served as provost of King's College, Cambridge from 1966 to 1979. He was also president of the Royal Anthropolo ...

's ''Culture and Communication'' is published. * Stuart Hall's and Tony Jefferson's (eds.) ''Resistance through Rituals'' is published. *

Roy Wallis Roy Wallis (1945–1990) was a sociologist and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the Queen's University Belfast. He is mostly known for his creation of the seven signs that differentiate a religious congregation from a se ...

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The Road to Total Freedom ''The Road to Total Freedom: A Sociological Analysis of Scientology'' is a non-fiction book about Scientology by sociologist Roy Wallis. Originally published in 1976 by Heinemann, it was republished in 1977 by Columbia University Press. The or ...

'' is published.

1977

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 University ...

's ''Class conflict and the industrial relations crisis : compromise and corporatism in the policies of the British state'' is published. *

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'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 Robert Christopher Lasch (June 1, 1932 – February 14, 1994) was an American historian 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 pervasiveness with ...

's ''Haven in a Heartless World'' is published. *

Karl Polanyi Karl Paul Polanyi (; ; 25 October 1886 – 23 April 1964)''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. 2003) vol 9. p. 554 was an Austro-Hungarian economic anthropologist, economic sociologist, and politician, best kno ...

's ''The Livelihood of Man'' is published. *

John Milton Yinger John Milton Yinger (July 6, 1916 – July 28, 2011) was an American sociologist who was president of the American Sociological Association 1976–1977. Yinger received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1942, and was Emer ...

serves as president of the

Deaths

March 26 Events Pre-1600 * 590 – Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. * 624 – First Eid al-Fitr celebration. * 1021 – The death of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, kept secret ...

Will Herberg William Herberg (June 30, 1901 – March 26, 1977) was an American writer, intellectual, and scholar. A communist political activist during his early years, Herberg gained wider public recognition as a social philosopher and sociologist of relig ...

June 18 Events Pre-1600 * 618 – Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang dynasty rule over China. * 656 – Ali becomes Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate. * 860 – Siege of Constantinople (860), Byzantine� ...

Ali Shariati Ali Shariati Mazinani (, 23November 193318June 1977) was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist who specialised in the sociology of religion. He is regarded as one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the 20th century. He has be ...

1978

* Arnaldo Bagnasco's, Marcello Messori's and Carlo Trigilia's Problematiche dello sviluppo italiano is published. *

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Science in a Free Society ''Science in a Free Society'' is the 2nd full length book by the Austrian philosopher of science, Paul Feyerabend. It was published in 1978 by Schocken Books and later reprinted by Verso Books. While Feyerabend never published a second edition, V ...

'' is published. *

Ernest Gellner Ernest André Gellner (9 December 1925 – 5 November 1995) was a French-born British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist described by ''The Daily Telegraph'', when he died, as one of the world's most vigorous intellectuals, and by '' ...

'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. *

's ''The Last Half-Century'' is published. * Nicos Mouzelis's ''Modern Greece Facets of Underdevelopment'' is published. *

' ''State, Power and Socialism'' is published. * Amos H. Hawley serves as president of the

1979

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 influ ...

's '' Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste'' is published. *

Michael Burawoy Michael Burawoy (15 June 1947 – 3 February 2025) was a British sociologist who worked within Marxist social theory, best known as the leading proponent of public sociology and the author of '' Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Proce ...

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Manufacturing Consent ''Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media'' is a 1988 book by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky. It argues that the mass communication media of the U.S. "are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out ...

'' is published. *

Ralf Dahrendorf Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, (; 1 May 1929 – 17 June 2009) was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician. A class conflict theorist, Dahrendorf was a leading expert on explaining an ...

's ''Life Chances'' is published. *Reestablishment of Sociology in China. *

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The Culture of Narcissism ''The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations'' (1979), by Christopher Lasch, is a psychological and cultural, artistic and historical synthesis that explores the roots and ramifications of the normalization of ...

'' 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 p ...

's '' The Postmodern Condition'' 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 pre ...

's ''The Present Conquest'' is published. *

's ''Total Violence: Essay on Political Anthropology'' is published. *

Theda Skocpol Theda Skocpol (née Barron; May 4, 1947) is an American sociologist and political scientist, who is currently the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University. She is best known as an advocate of the historical- ...

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States and Social Revolutions ''States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China'' is a 1979 book by Theda Skocpol, published by Cambridge University Press, that examines the causes of social revolutions. In the book, Skocpol performs a com ...

'' 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

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