Sociology Timeline of Selected Events and Influential Publications

1896
1897
1898
1899
1902
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1905

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, Gustave Le Bon

Suicide: A Study in Sociology, Emile Durkheim
The Principles of Sociology, Herbert Spencer
The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study, W.E.B. Du Bois
Human Nature and the Social Order, Charles Horton Cooley
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber
American Sociological Society established, later becoming the American Sociological Association (ASA)
1906
Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals, William Graham Sumner
1906
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber
1910
Most colleges and universities offering sociology courses, although not in
separate departments
1911
First Ph.D. in sociology awarded to a person of color, Richard Robert Wright,
by the University of Pennsylvania
191112 First sociology classes taught in high schools
1914
Economy and Society, Max Weber
1923
The Ego and the Id, Sigmund Freud
1928
The Thomas Theorem is expressed in The Child in America: Behavior Problems and Programs, W. I. Thomas and Dorothy S. Thomas
1934
Mind, Self, and Society, George Herbert Mead
1936
Literary Digest sends out 10 million surveys and predicts presidential race incorrectly; Gallup uses better sampling and accurately predicts the race with a
smaller sample
1937
Term symbolic interactionism introduced by Herbert Blumer
1943
Street Corner Society, William Foote Whyte
1944
An American Dilemma, Gunnar Myrdal
1951
The Social System, Talcott Parsons
1957
Social Theory and Social Structure, Robert K. Merton
1959
The Sociological Imagination, C. Wright Mills
1959
Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Erving Goffman
1962
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn
1963
The Center for Culture and Technology (now the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology) established at the University of Toronto and directed by
Marshall McLuhan
1963
The first account of Stanley Milgrams obedience studies appears in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology
1963
The Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance, Howard S. Becker
1963
Stigma: Notes on the Social Organization of Spoiled Identity, Erving Goffman
1964
Napoleon Chagnon begins his fieldwork among the Yanomamo people
1964
Exchange and Power in Social Life, Peter M. Blau
1966
The Social Construction of Reality, Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann
1967
Studies in Ethnomethodology, Harold Garfinkel
1967
The Levittowners: Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community, Herbert
Gans
1967
The American Occupational System, Peter M. Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan
1968
Jessie Bernard attends her first feminist meeting

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Sociology Timeline of Selected Events and Influential Publications

1969
1970
1971
1971
1974
1975
1976
1977
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1979
1982
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1986
1987
1990
1992
1998

Causes of Delinquency, Travis Hirschi

The Social Reality of Crime, Richard Quinney
First ASA Code of Ethics becomes effective
Philip Zimbardo conducts the Stanford Prison Experiment
National Research Act mandates Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Edward O. Wilson
The Modern World-System, Immanuel Wallerstein
Man and Women of the Corporation, Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Clinical Sociology Association established (today the Sociological Practice
Association)
Society for Applied Sociology founded
Neofuntionalism, Jeffrey Alexander
Certified Clinical Sociologist Program for practicing sociologists established
by the Clinical Sociology Association (today designated as Certified Sociological Practitioner)
The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration, Anthony
Giddens
The Truly Disavantaged, William Julius Wilson
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, Patricia Hill Collins
The McDonaldization of Society, George Ritzer
The Women Founders: Sociology and Social Theory, 18301930, Patricia
Madoo Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge-Brantly

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