1990s in sociology
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1990
- Aung San Suu Kyi's Burma and India: Some aspects of intellectual life under colonialism is published.[1]
- Zygmunt Bauman's Thinking Sociologically is published.[2]
- Raymond Boudon's The Art of Self-Persuasion: The Social Explanation of False Beliefs is published.[3]
- James Coleman's Foundations of Social Theory is published.[4]
- Troy Duster's Backdoor To Eugenics is published.[5]
- Ian Hacking's The Taming of Chance is published.[6]
- Nicole Lapierre's The Silence of the Memory is published and wins the Bulzoni Editore Special Award.[7]
- M. Rainer Lepsius' and Wolfgang J. Mommsen's (ed.) Max Weber. Briefe 1906-1908 is published and wins the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences.[8]
- Chen Liangjin's Social Developmental Mechanisms and Social Security Functions is published.[9]
- Alejandro Portes' and Rubén Rumbaut's Immigrant America: A Portrait is published.[10]
- John B. Thompson's Ideology and Modern Culture: Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communications is published.[11]
- Paul Willis's Common culture: symbolic work at play in the everyday cultures of the young is published.[12]
- William Julius Wilson serves as the president of the ASA.[13]
- Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women is published.[14]
Deaths
- February 17: Hans Speier[15]
- August 1: Norbert Elias[16]
- October 22: Louis Althusser[17]
1991
- Cornelius Castoriadis' Philosophy, Politics and Autonomy is published.[18]
- Louis Dumont'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.[19]
- Clive Emsley's English police: a political and social history is published.[20]
- Ron Eyerman's and Andrew Jamison's Social movements: a cognitive approach is published.[21]
- Mike Featherstone's, Mike Hepworth's and Bryan Turner's The body: social process and cultural theory is published.[22]
- Ann Game's Undoing the Social: Towards a deconstructive sociology is published.[23]
- Steven Goldberg's When Wish Replaces Thought: Why So Much of What You Believe Is False is published.[24]
- Anthony Giddens' Modernity and Self Identity is published.[25]
- Donna Haraway's A Cyborg Manifesto is published.[26]
- Nicos Panayiotou Mouzelis's Back to Sociological Theory: The Construction of Social Orders is published.[27]
- Philippe Sarasin's Die Stadt der Bürger is published and wins the Bulzoni Editore Special Award.[28][29]
- Immanuel Wallerstein's Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of Nineteenth Century Paradigms[30]
- Stanley Lieberson serves as president of the ASA.[31]
Deaths
- June 28/June 29: Henri Lefebvre[32]
- August 21: Oswald von Nell-Breuning[33]
1992
- Pierre Bourdieu's and Loïc Wacquant's An invitation to Reflexive Sociology is published.[34]
- Fei Xiaotong's Xingxing chong xingxing: Xiangzhen Fazhan Lunshu 《行行重行行》 (Travel, travel, and more travel: On Rural Development) is published.[35]
- Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt's Jewish civilization: the Jewish historical experience in a comparative perspective is published.[36]
- Harvie Ferguson's Religious transformation in Western society: The End of Happiness is published.[37]
- Stuart Hall's, David Held's and Tony Mcgrew's Modernity and its Futures is published.[38]
- David Lockwood's Solidarity and schism: the problem of disorder in Durkheimian and Marxist sociology is published.[39]
- Niklas Luhmann's Observations of modern trends is published.[40]
- Sal Restivo's Mathematics in Society and History is published.[41]
- Chris Shilling's The Body and Social Theory is published.[42]
- Richard Skellington's and Paulette Morris's (eds.) Race in Britain Today is published.[43]
- Alain Touraine's Critique of Modernity is published.[44]
- Carlo Triglia's Sviluppo senza autonomia: effetti perversi delle politiche nel Mezzogiorno is published.[45]
- James Coleman serves as president of the American Sociological Association (ASA)[46]
Deaths
- December 9: Thomas Bottomore[47]
1993
- Steven Goldberg's Why Men Rule is published.[48]
- Jean-François Lyotard's Toward The Postmodern is published.[49]
- Michael Mann's The Sources of Social Power (Volume 2) is published.[50]
- Michel Maffesoli's The Contemplation of the World (La Contemplation du monde): figures of community style is published.[51]
- Douglas Massey'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.[52]
- George Ritzer's The McDonaldization of Society is published.[53]
- Renato Rosaldo's Culture and Truth is published.[54]
- Charles Tilly's European Revolutions, 1492–1992 is published and wins the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences the next year.[55]
- Cornel West's Race Matters is published.[56]
1994
- Nigel Dodd's The Sociology of Money is published.[57]
- Anthony Giddens' Beyond Left and Right is published.[58]
- Deborah Lupton's Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body in Western Societies is published.[59]
- Angela McRobbie's Postmodernism and popular culture is published.[60]
- Ralph Miliband's Socialism for a Sceptical Age is published.[61]
- Charles Murray's The Bell Curve is published.[62]
- Viviana Zelizer's The Social Meaning of Money is published.[63]
Deaths
- February 14 – Christopher Lasch[64]
1995
- Ulrich Beck's Ecological Politics in the Age of Risk is published.[65]
- Walden Bello founded Focus on the Global South in Bangkok, Thailand.[66]
- Raymond Boudon's Le Juste et le vrai is published.[67]
- Colin Crouch's Reinventing collective action: from the global to the local is published.[68]
- François Furet's The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century is published.[69]
- Ian Hacking's Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory is published.[70]
- David Hollinger's Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalisms is published.[71]
- Christopher Lasch's The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy is published.[72]
- Sarah Nettleton's Sociology of Health and Illness is published.[73]
- Charles Tilly's Popular contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834 is published.[74]
- John B. Thompson's The Media and Modernity: A social Theory of the Media is published.[75]
- Ken Morrison's Marx, Durkheim, Weber: Formations of Modern Social Thought is published.[76]
Deaths
- November 4: Gilles Deleuze[77]
1996
- Les Back's New Ethnicities and Urban culture is published.[78]
- Tim Dant's Fetishism and the social value of objects is published.[79]
- Stuart Hall's and Paul Du Gay's Questions of cultural identity is published.[80]
- Stevi Jackson's and Sue Scott's Feminism and Sexuality is published.[81]
- Richard Jenkins' Social Identity is published.[82]
- David Lee's and Bryan Turner's Conflicts about Class: Debating Inequality in Late Industrialism is published.[83]
- Serge Latouche's The Westernisation of the World is published.[84]
- Andrew W. Metcalfe's and Ann Game's Passionate Sociology is published.[85]
- Michel Maffesoli's The Time of the Tribes: The Decline of Individualism in Mass Society is published in English translation.[86]
- Anna Pollert's Gender and Class Revisited; or, the Poverty of 'Patriarchy' is published.[87]
- Cyril Smith's Marx at the millennium is published.[88]
- John Solomos' and Les Back's Racism and Society is published.[89]
- Mobilization: The International Quarterly Review of Social Movement Research is first published by Hank Johnston.[90]
1997
- Jean Baudrillard's A Conjuration of Imbeciles is published.[91]
- Ulrich Beck's The Reinvention of Politics is published.[92]
- Michael Bury's Health and Illness in a changing society is published.[93]
- Stuart Hall's (ed.) Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Process is published.[94]
- Niklas Luhmann's Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft (translated as Theory of Society) is published and wins the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences.[95]
- Beverley Skeggs's Formations of Class and Gender: Becoming Respectable is published.[96]
- Sylvia Walby's Gender Transformations is published.[97]
- Katherine Woodward's Identity and Difference is published.[98]
- Slavoj Žižek's Multi-culturalism or The Cultural Logic of Multi-national Capitalism is published.[99]
- Neil Smelser serves as president of the ASA.[100]
- Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is published.[101]
- Nathan Glazer's We Are All Multiculturalists Now is published.[102]
1998
- Ulrich Beck's World Risk Society is published.[103]
- Manuel Castells published the final volume of his The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture trilogy[104]
- Anthony Giddens' The Third Way is published.[105]
- Ian Hacking's Mad Travellers is published.[106]
- Ron Eyerman's and Andrew Jamison's Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century is published.[107]
- Serge Latouche's L'Autre Afrique: Entre don et marché is published.[108]
- Richard Sennett's The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism is published.[109]
- Pierre Bourdieu's La Domination masculine is published.[110]
- Gordon Marshall's and John Scott's A Dictionary of Sociology is published.[111]
Deaths
- November 6: Niklas Luhmann[112]
1999
- David Byrne's Social Exclusion is published.[113]
- Colin Crouch's Social Change in Western Europe is published.[114]
- Máirtín Mac an Ghaill's Contemporary Racisms and Ethnicities: Social and Cultural Transformations is published.[115]
- Germaine Greer's The Whole Woman is published.[116]
- Ian Hacking's The Social Construction of What? is published.[117]
- Charles Murray's The Underclass Revisited is published[118]
- Susan Moller Okin's Is Multiculturalism Bad For Women? is published.[119]
- Anne Phillips' Which equalities matter? is published.[120]
- Alejandro Portes serves as president of the American Sociological Association[121]
- Alain Touraine's Comment sortir du libéralisme is published.[122]
- Zygmunt Bauman's Liquid Modernity is published.[123]
- The Polish Sociological Review published Institutionalization of Sociology [124]