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

1970

• Robert Adrey's Social Contract is published.^[1]
• Jean Baudrillard's The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures is published.^[2]
• Thomas R. Dye's and L. Harmon Zeigler's Irony of democracy is published.^[3]
• Michel Foucault's The Order of Discourse is published.^[4]
• Alvin Ward Gouldner's The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology is published.^[5]
• Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch is published.^[6]
• Donald MacRae's New Society is published.
• Nicos Poulantzas' Fascism and Dictatorship is published.^[7]
• John Rex's Race relations in sociological theory is published.^[8]
• Richard Sennett's Families Against the City: Middle Class Homes of Industrial Chicago, 1872-1890 is published.^[9]
• Richard Titmuss' The Gift Relationship is published.^[10]

1971

• Erving Goffman's Relations in Public is published.^[11]
• György Lukács' History and Class Consciousness (last edition) is published.^[12]
• Frank Parkin's Class Inequality and Political Order: Social Stratification in Capitalist and Communist Societies is published.^[13]
• Talcott Parsons' The System of Modern Societies is published.^[14]
• Frances Fox Piven's and Richard Cloward's Regulating the poor; the functions of public welfare is published.^[15]
• Henry S. Shryock's and Jacob S. Siegel's The Methods and Materials of Demography is published.^[16]
• William H. Sewell serves as president of the ASA.^[17]

Deaths

June 4 - György Lukács^[18]

1972

• Stanley Cohen's Folk Devils and Moral Panics is published.^[19]
• Andre Gunder Frank's Lumpenbourgeoisie: Lumpendevelopment is published.^[20]
• Karl Popper's Objective Knowledge is published.^[21]
• Michael Young's Is equality a dream is published.^[22]
• William J. Goode serves as president of the ASA.^[23]

1973

• Jean Baudrillard's The Mirror of Production is published.^[24]
• Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death is published.^[25]
• Daniel Bell's The Coming of Post-Industrial Society is published.^[26]
• Raymond Boudon's Mathematical structures of social mobility is published.^[27]
• James Coleman's The Mathematics of Collective Activity is published.^[28]
• Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt's Traditional patrimonialism and modern neopatrimonialism is published.^[29]
• Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt's Tradition, change, and modernity is published.^[30]
• Alvin Ward Gouldner's For Sociology is published.
• David V. Glass' Numbering the People is published.
• Steven Goldberg's The Inevitability of Patriarchy is published.^[31]
• Friedrich Hayek's Law, Legislation and Liberty is published.^[32]
• Jacques Lacan's The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis is published.^[33]
• John Rex's Discovering sociology : studies in sociological theory and method is published.^[34]
• Peter Willmott's and Michael Young's Symmetrical family; a study of work and leisure in the London region is published.^[35]

1974

• Raymond Boudon's Education, opportunity, and social inequality : changing prospects in Western society is published.^[36]
• Harry Braverman's Labour and Monopoly Capital; the Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century is published.^[37]
• Oliver Cox's Jewish Self-Interest in Black Pluralism is published.^[38]
• Erving Goffman's Frame Analysis is published.^[39]
• Nicos Poulantzas' Classes in contemporary Capitalism is published.^[40]
• Wilhelm Reich's The Sexual Revolution is published.^[41]
• Immanuel Wallerstein's The Modern World-System (Volume 1): Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century is published.^[42]
• Peter M. Blau serves as president of the ASA.^[43]
• Last meeting of the London Positivist Society^[44]

Deaths

• March 6 - Ernest Becker^[45]

1975

• Randall Collins' Conflict Sociology is published.^[46]
• Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish is published.^[47]
• Paul Feyerabend's Against Method is published.^[48]
• Ian Hacking's The Emergence of Probability is published.^[49]
• Ian Hacking's Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy? is published.^[50]
• Charles Tilly's (ed.) The Formation of National States in Western Europe is published.^[51]
• Nicos Poulantzas' Crisis of Dictatorships is published.^[52]
• John Westergaard's and Henrietta Resler's Class in a capitalist society : a study of contemporary Britain is published.^[53]

1976

• Jean Baudrillard's Symbolic exchange and Death is published.^[54]
• Thomas R. Dye's Who's running America? : Institutional leadership in the United States is published.^[55]
• Michel Foucault's The Will to Knowledge is published.^[56]
• Anthony Giddens' The New Rules of the Sociological Method is published.^[57]
• Morris Janowitz's Social Control and the Welfare State is published.^[58]
• Edmund Leach's Culture and Communication is published.^[59]
• Stuart Hall's and Tony Jefferson's (eds.) Resistance through Rituals is published.^[60]
• Roy Wallis' The Road to Total Freedom is published.^[61]

1977

• Colin Crouch's Class conflict and the industrial relations crisis : compromise and corporatism in the policies of the British state is published.^[62]
• Frances Fox Piven's and Richard Cloward's Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail is published.^[63]
• Michael Th. Greven's Parties and political rule: the interdependence of internal-party order and democracy in the FRG is published.
• Christopher Lasch's Haven in a Heartless World is published.^[64]
• Karl Polanyi's The Livelihood of Man is published.^[65]
• John Milton Yinger serves as president of the ASA.^[66]

Deaths

• March 26 - Will Herberg^[67]
• June 18 - Ali Shariati^[68]

1978

• Arnaldo Bagnasco's, Marcello Messori's and Carlo Trigilia's Problematiche dello sviluppo italiano is published.^[69]
• Paul Feyerabend's Science in a Free Society is published.^[70]
• Ernest Gellner's State and Society in Soviet Thought is published.^[71]
• Stuart Hall's, Charles Critcher's, Tony Jefferson's, Brian Robert's and John Clarke's Policing the Crisis is published.^[72]
• Morris Janowitz's The Last Half-Century is published.^[73]
• Nicos Mouzelis's Modern Greece Facets of Underdevelopment is published.^[74]
• Nicos Poulantzas' State, Power and Socialism is published.^[75]
• Amos H. Hawley serves as president of the ASA.^[76]

1979

• Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste is published.^[77]
• Michael Burawoy's Manufacturing Consent is published.^[78]
• Ralf Dahrendorf's Life Chances is published.^[79]
• Reestablishment of Sociology in China.^[80]
• Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism is published.^[81]
• Jean-François Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition is published.^[82]
• Michel Maffesoli's The Present Conquest is published.
• Michel Maffesoli's Total Violence: Essay on Political Anthropology is published.
• Theda Skocpol's States and Social Revolutions is published.^[83]
• Viviana Zelizer's Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance Policies in the United States is published.^[84]
• Hubert M. Blalock, Jr. serves as president of the ASA.^[85]

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