1. Sociologically, what are the functions of marriage? (10)
a. Functions for the society
-Marriage works toward stability and social control
b. Functions for the individual
-Marriage provides deeper feelings of love and intimacy.
-Marriage provides the individual a feeling of commitment to another, the sharing of goals and emotional security.
-Marriage gives marriage partners acceptance as fully mature people.
(Sociology, The Human Science, Elbert W. Stewart, pp. 327-328)
2. What are the functions of education in the view of sociology? (10)
(Both from functionalist and conflict perspectives)
Functionalist Perspectives:
1. intended/manifest/predetermined functions:
a. socialization
b. cultural transmission
c. academic skills
d. innovation
2. unintended/latent functions:
a. child care
b. postponing job hunting
Conflict Perspectives:
1. social control
2. screening and allocation: tracking
(Introduction to Sociology, Tischler/Whitten/Hunter, pp. 409-416)
3. Mention and explain briefly the types of deviance. (15)
1. Status Violence as Deviance
If people behave not in accordance with their statuses, it will be considered as deviance.
2. Political and religious deviance
Violating the religious and political norms will be considered as deviance.
3. Mental illness as deviance
Societies defines normal and abnormal behavior. Abnormal behavior due to mental illness will be considered as deviance.
4. Sexual deviance
Homosexuality and any other abnormal sexual behavior and orientation will be considered as deviance.
5. Crime as deviance
Crime is a type of deviance that violates criminal law.
(Sociology, The Human Science, Elbert W. Stewart, pp. 263-265)
4. Mention four shared elements of all religions in the world.(10)
1. ritual and prayer
2. emotion
3. belief
4. organization
(Introduction to Sociology, Tischler/Whitten/Hunter, pp. 381-384)
5. Mention three types of authority according to Max Weber and give brief explanation for each.(15)
1. legal-rational authority
power is legitimated by explicit rules and rational procedures that defines the rights and duties of the occupants of given positions.
2. traditional authority
power is legitimated by the sanctity of age-old customs.
3. charismatic authority
power is legitimated by the extraordinary superhuman or supernatural attributes people attribute to a leader.
(Sociology, The Core, James W. Vander Zanden, pp. 225-226)
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LNG
June 6, 07
21:12
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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Friday, March 9, 2007
Intro to Sociology Topic Lists
WEEK TOPIC
1--------What is society and sociology: Introduction
--------Compared to other social sciences
2--------Sociological research
3--------Culture and diversity
--------Social Structure
4--------Social Interaction, Groups and Social Structure
5--------Socialization
6--------Race, ethnicity, and minority status
---------Inequalities
7--------Social Stratification
8==== Mid-Semester Exam
9--------Deviant Behavior
10-------Collective Behavior
------- Social Movements
11-------Marriage and Family
12-------The Educational Process
13-------Religion
14-------Political Power and Economic System
15-------Social Changes
------- Sources of Changes
16====Final Exam
03/10/07
LNG
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
A Sociology Timeline from 1600
1620 Apr 24
John GRAUNT born London
1623 May 26
William PETTY born Hampshire
1632 Aug 29
John LOCKE born Wrington, Somerset
1632 Nov 24
Benedict (or Baruch) SPINOZA born Amsterdam
1642
Thomas HOBBES: De Cive, Aubrey's 'Life'
1651
Thomas HOBBES:Leviathan
1662
John GRAUNT: Observations on the Bills of Mortality
1668 Jun 23
Giambattista VICO born Naples
1670
SPINOZA: A Theologico-Political Treatise
1670
Bernard MANDEVILLE born Dordrecht, Holland
1671
SHAFTESBURY (Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl) born
1674 Apr 18
John GRAUNT died
1676
William PETTY: Political Arithmetick
1677 Feb 21
Baruch SPINOZA died
1677
SPINOZA: Ethics
1677
SPINOZA: On the Improvement of the Understanding
1679 Dec 4
Thomas HOBBES died
1682
William PETTY: (Another) Essay on Political Arithmetick
1683
William PETTY: Observations on the Dublin Bills of Mortality
1685 Mar 12
George BERKELEY born Dublin
1687 Dec 16
William PETTY died
1689 Jan 18
Charles de Secondat, Baron de MONTESQUIEU born Château La Brède, near Bordeaux
1690
John LOCKE: Essay Concerning Human Understanding
1690
John LOCKE: Second Treatise on Government
1694
Francis HUTCHESON born
1700
1600 1700 1750 1800 1850 1900 1950
1704 Oct 28
John LOCKE died
1710
BERKELEY: Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
1711 Apr 26
David HUME born Edinburgh; 2nd site
1711
SHAFTESBURY: Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, Etc.
1712
Jean Jacques ROUSSEAU born in Geneva, Switzerland
1713
SHAFTESBURY died
1714
MANDEVILLE: The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vises, Public Benefits
1721
MONTESQUIEU: Persian Letters
1723 Jun 5
Adam SMITH born Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland
1723 Jun 20
Adam FERGUSON born
1724
Immanuel KANT born Königsberg (Kaliningrad) , East Prussia
1726
John HOWARD born Enfield, England
1725
HUTCHESON: An Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
1727 May 10
Anne-Robert-Jacques TURGOT born Paris
1728
HUTCHESON: Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections
1729 Jan 12
Edmund BURKE born Dublin
1733
Bernard MANDEVILLE died
1732
MANDEVILLE: An Enquiry into the Origin of Honour
1734
MONTESQUIEU: Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their decline
1735
BERKELEY: The Querist
1737 Jan 29
Thomas PAINE born Thetford, Norfolk, Eng.
1739
HUME: Treatise on Human Nature
1743 Sep 17
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de CONDORCET born Ribemont, France
1744 Jan 23
Giambattista VICO died
1746
Francis HUTHESON died Glasgow
1747
HUTCHESON: Short Inroduction to Moral Philosophy
1748 Feb 15
Jeremy BENTHAM born Houndsditch, London
1748
HUME: Philosophical Essays
1748
HUME: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding text
1748
MONTESQUIEU: Spirit of Laws
1750
1600 1700 1750 1800 1850 1900 1950
1750
ROUSSEAU: First Discourse
1751
HUME: Enquiry Concering the Principles of Morals
1751
ROUSSEAU: Discourses on the Sciences and the Arts
1753 Apr 1
Comte Joseph Marie de MAISTRE born
1754 Oct 2
Louis G. de BONALD born
1755 Feb 10
Charles de MONTESQUIEU died
1755
HUTCHESON: System of Moral Philosophy
1755
ROUSSEAU: A Discourse upon the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind (aka Second Discourse)
1756 Mar 3
William GODWIN born
1757
HUME: The Natural History of Religion
1759 Apr 27
Mary WOLLSTONECRAFT born London
1759
SMITH: Theory of Moral Sentiments, discussion of
1760 Oct 17
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de SAINT-SIMON born Paris
1762
ROUSSEU: Emile, a Treatise on Education
1762
ROUSSEAU: The Social Contract
1766 Feb 17
Thomas MALTHUS born
1766
TURGOT: Reflections on the Formation of Riches
1767
FERGUSON: An Essay on the History of Civil Society; a discussed
1770 Aug 27
Georg Frederick HEGEL born
1771 May 14
Robert OWEN born
1772 Apr 7
(François Marie) Charles FOURIER born
1775 Mar 8
PAINE: African Slavery in America
1776 Jan 10
PAINE: Common Sense
1776
BENTHAM: Fragment on Government
1776
SMITH: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
1777 Aug 25
David HUME died
1777
HOWARD: The State of Prisons (description)
1779
HUME: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
1779
John MILLAR: The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks
1781 Mar 20
Jacques TURGOT died
1781
KANT: Critique of Pure Reason
1782-89
ROUSSEAU: Confessions
1784
KANT: Idea for a Universal History...
1784-91
Johann Gottfried von HERDER: Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind
1785
KANT: Grundlegung
1786
WOLLSTONECRAFT: Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (pamphlet)
1787
BENTHAM: Defense of Usury
1788 Feb 22
Arthur SCHOPENHAUER born
1788
KANT: Critique of Practical Reason
1789
BENTHAM: Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
1790 Jan 20
John HOWARD died, Kherson, Ukraine, Russia
1790 Mar 1
first United States census began
1790 Jul 17
Adam SMITH died
1790
United States conducts first regular census
1790
BURKE: Reflections on the Revolution in France
1790
WOLLSTONECRAFT: A Vindication Of The Rights Of Men (response to BURKE)
1792
FERGUSON: Pricniples of Moral and Political Science
1792
PAINE: The Rights of Man
1792
WOLLSTONECRAFT: Vindication of the Rights of Women
1793 Dec 15
Henry Charles CAREY born
1793
CONDORCET: Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind
1793
GODWIN: Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
1794 Mar 29
Marie-Jean, Marquis de CONDORCET died
1795 Dec 4
Thomas CARLYLE born
1795
CONDORCET: History Essay on the Progress of Human Reason
1795
PAINE: The Age of Reason
1795
SMITH: Philosophical Essays
1795-1809
HEGEL: On Christianity: Early Theological writings
1796 Feb 22
Adolphe QUETELET born
1796
BONALD: Theory of Political and Religious Authority in Civil Society
1797 Mar 29
WOLLSTONECRAFT & GODWIN marry privately
1797 Sep 10
Mary WOLLSTONECRAFT died (Mary born Aug 30
1797 Jul 9
Edmund BURKE died
1797
MAISTRE: Considérations sur la France
1798 Jan 17
Auguste COMTE born (birth registered Jan 19)
1798 Jun 7
MALTHUS: Essay on the Principle of Population
1798
GODWIN: Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft
1798
WOLLSTONECRAFT: Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
1800
1600 1700 1750 1800 1850 1900 1950
1802 Jun 12
Harriet MARTINEAU born, Norwich, England
1804 Jul 28
Ludwig FEUERBACH born
1724
Immanuel KANT died Königsberg, East Prussia
1805 Jul 29
Alexis de TOCQUEVILLE born
1806 Apr 11
Fréderic LE PLAY born
1806
John Stuart MILL born
1806
Johann Gottlieb FICHTE: Characterstic of the Present Age
1807
HEGEL: The Phenomenology of Mind
1809 Feb 12
Charles Robert DARWIN born, Shrewsbury, England
1809 Jun 8
Thomas PAINE died
1812-1816
HEGEL: Science of Logic
1813
SAINT-SIMON: Essay on Science of Man
1813
OWEN: A New View of Society
1814
MAISTRE: Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions
1814
SAINT-SIMON: The Reorganization of European Society
1816 Feb 22
Adam FERGUSON died
1816 Jul 14
Arthur de GOBINEAU born
1817
HEGEL: Encyclopedia of Philosophy
1817
RICARDO: Principles of Political Economy
1818
(Mary WOLLSTONECRAFT) Shelley: Frankenstein
1818 May 5
Karl MARX born
1818 Nov 21
Lewis Henry MORGAN born
1818
SCHOPENHAUER: The World as Will and Idea
1818-31
HEGEL teaches in Berlin
1820 Apr 27
Herbert SPENCER born
1820 Nov 28
Friedrich ENGELS born, Barmen, Germany
1820
MALTHUS: Principles of Political Economy
1821 Feb 26
Comte Joseph Marie de MAISTRE died
1821 Nov 21
Henry T. BUCKLE born
1821
HEGEL: The Philosophy of Right
1821
James MILL: Principles of Political Economy
1822 Feb 16
Francis GALTON born
1822
COMTE: Plan of the Scientific Operations Necessary for Reorganizing Society
1823-33
Utilitarian Society flourishes in Britain
1825 May 19
Henri de SAINT-SIMON died
1825
SAINT-SIMON: New Christianity
1825-35
Saint-Simonians flourish in France
1826 Feb 3
Walter BAGEHOT born
1830-42
COMTE: The Positive Philosophy (6 vols), 1830, 1835, 1838, 1839, 1841, 1842
1831 Feb 24
Albert SCHÄFFLE born
1831 Nov 14
Georg Frederick HEGEL died
1831
DARWIN: sails on the H.M.S. Beagle
1832 Jun 6
Jeremy BENTHAM died
1832 Oct 2
Edward B. TYLOR born
1832-4
MARTINEAU: Illustrations of Political Economy
1833
MARTINEAU: Poor Laws and Paupers
1833-43
Young Hegelians flourish in Germany
1834 Dec 23
Thomas MALTHUS died
1834
MARTINEAU: Illustrations of Taxation
1834
MARTINEAU settled in London, consulted by cabinent ministers
1834 Sep-1836 Aug
MARTINEAU visits America, gives offense through abolitionist views
1835
CAREY: Essay on the Rate of Wages
1835
QUETELET: On Man and the Development of Human Faculties: An Essay on Social Physics
1835-40
TOCQUEVILLE: Democracy in America
1836 Apr 7
William GODWIN died
1837 Oct 10
(François Marie) Charles FOURIER died
1837
CARLYLE: French Revolution
1837
HEGEL: The Philosophy of History
1837
MARTINEAU: Society in America note
1837-1840
CAREY: Principles of Political Economy
1838 Mar 9
Ludwig GUMPLOWICZ born
1840 Nov 23
Louis G. de BONALD died
1840
PROUDHON: What is Property?
1841 Jun 18
Lester Frank WARD born
1841
CARLYLE: On Heroes
1841
FEUERBACH: The Essence of Christianity
1842 Jan 11
William JAMES born
1842 May 5
MARX writes first article for Rheinische Zeitung
1842
FEUERBACH: Preparatory Theses on the Reform of Philosophy
1842
SPENCER: "The Proper Sphere of Government," The Nonconformist
1842
Lorenz von STEIN: Socialism and Communism in France
1843 Mar 12
Gabriel TARDE born
1843
FEUERBACH: Principles of the Philosophy of the Future
1843
MARX: Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
1843
J.S. MILL: System of Logic
1844 Oct 15
Friedrich Wilheim NIETZSCHE born
1844
FEUERBACH: The Essence of Religion
1844
MARX: Contribution to the Critique of Hegel'S Philosophy of Law
1844
ENGELS: Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy
1844
ENGELS: Review of Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present
1844-5
MARX: The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
1845
MARTINEAU settles at Ambleside in English Lake District
1844
MARX: Theses on Feuerbach
1845-55
Positivist Society flourishes in France
1845-46
MARX: The German Ideology
1847
ENGELS: The Principles of Communism
1847
MARX: The Poverty of Philosophy
1848 Jul 15
Vilfredo PARETO born
1848
CAREY: The Past, the Present, and the Future
1848
MARTINEAU: Eastern Life, Present and Past (expounds philosophical atheism)
1848
MARX: Communist Manifesto
1848
J.S. MILL: Principles of Political Economy
1849 Sep 26
Ivan Petrovich PAVLOV born, Ryazan, Russia [Sep 14 Old style]
1849
MARTINEAU: History of England During the Thirty Years' Peace 1816-46
1849
MARX: Wage-Labor and Capital
1850
1600 1700 1750 1800 1850 1900 1950
1850
ENGELS: The Peasants' War in Germany
1850
MARX and ENGELS: England's 17th c. Revolution
1850
MARX: The Class Struggle in France, 1848 to 1850
1850
SPENCER: Social Statics
1850
Lorenz von STEIN: The History of the Social Movement in France, 1789-1850
1851
CAREY: The Harmony of Interests
1851
MARTINEAU: Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development (agnostic views which aliented her friends)
1851-1854
COMTE: System of Positive Polity (4 vols)
1852
MARX: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
1852 Aug 23
Arnold TOYNBEE born (sociologist uncle of THE Arnold Toynbee)
1853
CAREY: The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists and How it May be Extinguished
1853
MARTINEAU translates and extensively edits Comte's Positive Philosophy
1853-5
GOBINEAU: Essay on the Inequality of Human Races
1854 May 11
Albion Woodbury SMALL born, Buckfield, Maine
1855 Mar 23
Franklin H. GIDDINGS born
1855
Achille GUILLARD coins "demographie"
1855 Jul 26
Ferdinand TOENNIES born near Oldenswort, Schleswig
1855
LE PLAY: The European Workers, (6 vols)
1856 May 6
Sigmund FREUD born
1856
TOCQUEVILLE: Old Regime
1857 Mar 23
Karl PEARSON born, London, England
1857 Jul 30
Thorstein VEBLEN born
1857 Sep 5
Auguste COMTE died
1857-61
BUCKLE: The History of Civilization in England
1857
MARX: Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations
1857-8
MARX: Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
1858 Mar 1
Georg SIMMEL born
1858 Apr 1
Gaetano MOSCA born, Palermo, Sicily
1858 Apr 15
(David) Emile DURKHEIM born
1858 Jul 9
Franz BOAS born, Minden, Westphalia, Prussia [Germany]
1858 Nov 17
Robert OWEN died
1858-1860
CAREY: The Principles of Social Science
1859 Apr 16
Alexis de TOCQUEVILLE died
1859
DARWIN: The Origin of Species
1859
MARX: A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
1859
J.S. MILL: On Liberty
1860 Sep 6
Jane ADDAMS born, Cedarville IL
1860 Sep 21
Arthur SCHOPENHAUER died
1861
Henry Sumner MAINE: Ancient Law
1862 May 29
Henry T. BUCKLE died
1862
SPENCER: First Principles text version
1863 Jan 19
Werner SOMBART born, Ermsleben, Saxony, Prussia
1863 Aug 13
William Isaac THOMAS born
1863 Feb 27
George Herbert MEAD born
1864 Apr 21
Max WEBER born
1864 Aug 17
Charles Horton COOLEY born
1864 Feb 14
Robert Ezra PARK born
1864
Fustel de COULANGES: The Ancient City
1864
LE PLAY: Social Reform in France (3 vols)
1864
SPENCER: Reason for Dissenting from the Politivist Philosphy of M. Comte
1864-67
SPENCER: Principles of Biology (2 vols)
1865 Mar 19
Joseph WHEELER born, Milwaukee WI
1865
GOBINEAU: The Religions and Philosophies of Central Asia
1865
MARX:Value, Price, and Profit
1865
J.S. MILL: Auguste Comte and Positivism
1867-8
MARX: Capital (vol I)
1868 Feb 23
(William Edward Burghardt) W.E.B. du BOIS born, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
1869
GALTON: Hereditary Genius
1869
RENOUVIER: Science of Ethics
1870-72
SPENCER: Principles of Psychology (2 vols)
1871 Mar 5
"Blutige (Bloody)" Rosa LUXEMBURG born, Zamoshc, Poland
1871
DARWIN: The Descent of Man
1871
GALTON: A Statistical Enquiry into the Efficacy of Prayer
1871
MARX: The Civil War in France
1871
LE PLAY: Organization of the Family
1871
TYLOR: Primitive Culture
1872 Sep 13
Ludwig FEUERBACH died
1872
DARWIN: Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals
1872
BAGEHOT: Physics and Politics
1872
CAREY: The Unity of Law
1872
LE PLAY: Organization of Labor
1872
John Stuart MILL died
1873
SPENCER: Study of Sociology
1873-81
LILIENFELD: Ideas about the Social Sciences of the Future, (5 vols)
1874 Feb 17
Adolphe QUETELET died
1874
GALTON: English Men of Science
1875
GUMPLOWICZ: Race and State
1875
MARX: Critique of the Gotha Program
1875-78
SCHÄFFLE: Structure and Life of the Social Body (4 vols)
1876-8
ENGELS: The Part Played by Labour in the Transition From Ape to Man
1876 Jan 9
Robert MICHELS born, Cologne
1876 Jun 11
Alfred Louis KROEBER born, Hoboken NJ
1876 Jun 13
William Sealey GOSSET ("Student") born, Canterbury, England
1876 Jun 27
Harriet MARTINEAU died, near Ambleside, England
1876-96
SPENCER: Principles of Sociology (3 vols: 76, 82, 96)
1877 Mar 24
Walter BAGEHOT died
1877
ENGELS: Anti-Dühring
1877
MARTINEAU: Autobiographical Memoir
1877
MORGAN: Ancient Society
1879 Jun 3
Raymond PEARL born, Farmington NH
1879 Oct 13
Henry Charles CAREY died
1879-93
SPENCER: Principles of Ethics (2 vols)
1880 May 29
Oswald SPENGLER born
1880
ENGELS: Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
1880
FOUILLEE: Contemporary Social Science
1881 Dec 17
Lewis Henry MORGAN died
1881 Feb 5
Thomas CARLYLE died
1881
LE PLAY: Essential Constitution of Humanity
1882 Apr 5
Fréderic LE PLAY died
1882 Apr 17
Robert M. MACIVER born
1882 Apr 19
Charles Robert DARWIN died, Down, Kent, England
1882 Oct 13
Arthur de GOBINEAU died
1883 Mar 14
Karl MARX died
1883
Francis GALTON: Inquiries into human faculty and its development
1883
GUMPLOWICZ: Race Struggle
1883
SUMNER: What the Social Classes Owe to Each Other
1883
WARD: Dynamic Sociology (2 vol)
1883 Mar 9
Arnold TOYNBEE died (sociologist uncle of THE Arnold Toynbee)
1884 Jan 26
Edward SAPIR born, Lauenburg, Pomerania, Germany
1884 Apr 7
Bronislaw Kasper MALINOWSKI born, Krakow, Poland
1884 May 23
Corrado GINI born, Motta de Livenza, Treviso, Italy
1884
ENGELS: The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
1884
TOYNBEE: Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England
1884
SPENCER: The Man versus the State
1885 Jun 5
Warder Clyde ALLEE born, near Bloomingdale IN
1885
GUMPLOWICZ: Outline of Sociology
1885
MARX: Capital, Vol. II (post.)
1886 Jan 14
Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders born, Reigate, Surrey, England
1886 Jun 29
William Fielding OGBURN born
1886 May 16
Ernest Watson BURGESS born
1886
Achille LORIA: Economic Foundations of Society
1887 Jun 5
Ruth BENEDICT born, New York NY
1887
Karl KAUTSKY: The Economic Doctrines of Karl Marx
1887
TOENNIES: Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft
1889 Jan 21
Pitirim SOROKIN born
1889 Apr 14
Arnold Joseph TOYNBEE born in London
1889
ADDAMS founds Hull House settlement in Chicago
1889
Franz BOAS: The Aims of Ethnology
1889
Francis GALTON: Natural inheritance.
1890 Feb 17
Ronald Aylmer FISHER born, London, England
1890
FOUILLEE: The Evolution of Idea-Forces
1890
William JAMES: Principles of Psychology
1890
MARSHALL: Principles of Economics
1890
TARDE: Laws of Imitation
1891
Georg SIMMEL: On Social Differentiation
1892
DURKHEIM: Montesquieu - Quid Secundatus Politicae Scientiae Instituendae Contulerit (latin thesis)
1892
SMALL: First Sociology Department (University of Chicago
1892
PEARSON: Grammar of Science
1892
George SIMMEL: Problems of the Philosophy of History
1893
DURKHEIM: On the Division of Labor in Society
1893
FOUILLEE: The Psychology of Idea-Forces
1893
Jacques NOVICOW: The Struggles between Human Societies and Their Necessary Phases
1893
RATZENHOFER: Nature and End of Politics
1893
WARD: Psychic Factors of Civilization
1894
Benjamin KIDD: Social Evolution
1894
MARX: Capital, Vol III (post.)
1894
SMALL: first textbook in Sociology
1894
SUMNER: The Absurd Effort to Make the the World Over
1894
TARDE: Social Logic
1895
DURKHEIM: Rules of Sociological Method
1895 Aug 5
Friedrich ENGELS died, London, England
1895 Oct 3
George A. LUNDBERG born, Fairdale, North Dakota
1896
W.E.B. du BOIS receives Ph.D., Harvard, dissertation: The Suppression of the African Slave Trade; becomes instructor of Sociology, the University of Pennsylvania
1896
W.E.B. du BOIS: The Philadelphia Negro [first sociological analysis of African Americans in the US]
1896
Gustav Le BON: The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
1896
John DEWEY: The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology
1896
GIDDINGS: Principles of Sociology
1896
WEBER: The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations
1896
Rene WORMS: Organism and Society
1897 Apr 24
Benjamin Lee WHORF born, Winthrop MA
1897 Jun 2
Norbert ELIAS born, Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland)
1897 Aug 28
Louis WIRTH born, Gemunden, Germany
1897
DURKHEIM: Suicide
1897
PARETO: Course in Political Economy
1897
TARDE: Universal Opposition
1898 Jul 19
Herbert MARCUSE born, Berlin, Germany
1898
John DEWEY: Evolution and Ethics
1898-00
DURKHEIM: Professional Ethics and Civic Morals
1898
GIDDINGS: Elements of Sociology
1898
KAUTSKY: The Agrarian Problem
1898
RATZENHOFER: Sociological Studies
1898
TARDE: Social Laws
1898
WARD: Outline of Sociology
1899
Eduard BERNSTEIN: Evolutionary Socialism: a Criticism and Affirmations
1899
CHAMBERLAIN: The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century
1899
COSTE: Principles of Objective Sociology
1899
DURKHEIM: Collective and Individual Representations
1899
VEBLEN: Theory of the Leisure Class
1900
1600 1700 1750 1800 1850 1900 1950
1900 Mar 23
Erich FROMM born, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1900 Aug 25
Friedrich Wilheim NIETZSCHE died
1900
COSTE: Expriences of the Peoples
1900
DURKHEIM: Two Laws of Penal Evolution
1900
Stuart C. DODD born
1900
FREUD: The Interpretation of Dreams
1900
Karl PEARSON: The grammar of science
1900
George SIMMEL: Philosophy of Money
1901 Feb 13
Paul Felix LAZARSFELD born, Vienna, Austria
1901 Nov 18
George Horace GALLUP born, Jefferson IA
1901 Nov 19
Karl PEARSON: National life from the standpoint of science
1901 Dec 16
Margaret MEAD born, Philadelphia PA
1902 Dec 13
Talcott PARSONS born
1902
COOLEY: Human Nature and Social Order
1902-03
DURKHEIM: Moral Education
1902
KAUTSKY: The Social Revolution
1902
LENIN: What is to be done?
1903 Dec 8
Herbert SPENCER died
1903 Dec 25
Albert SCHÄFFLE died
1903
WARD: Pure Sociology
1903
du BOIS: The Souls of Black Folk
1904 May 13
Gabriel TARDE died
1904
PARK: The Crowd and the Public
1904
SPENCER: An Autobiography (2 vols)
1904
VEBLEN: The Theory of Business Enterprise
1904
WEBER: Objectivity in Social Science & Social Policy
1904 Sep-Dec
WEBER visits United States (St. Louis Exposition)
1905
SMALL: General Sociology
1906
HOBHOUSE: Morals in Evolution
1906
SCHÄFFLE: Outline of Sociology
1906
SUMNER: Folkways
1906
WARD: Applied Sociology
1906
WEBER: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
1907
William JAMES: Pragmatism
1907
WEBER: Critique of Stammler
1908 Aug 20
Kingsley DAVIS born, Tuxedo TX
1908
RATZENHOFER: Sociology
1908
SIMMEL:Soziologie
1909 Aug 19
Ludwig GUMPLOWICZ died
1909
COOLEY: Social Organization
1909
THOMAS: Source Book of Social Origins
1910 Jul 5
Robert King MERTON born, Philadelphia PA
1910 Aug 26
William JAMES died
1910
WHEELER: Ants: Their Structure, Development, and Behavior
1911 Jan 17
Francis GALTON died
1911
DURKHEIM: Judgments of Reality and Judgments of Value
1912
DURKHEIM: Elementary Forms of Religious Life
1912
GINI: Demographic Factors in the Evolution of Nations
1913 Apr 18
Lester Frank WARD died
1913
MEAD: The Social Self
1914-30
Karl PEARSON: The life, letters and labours of Francis Galton
1915
Robert MICHELS: Political Parties
1915
PARETO: General Treatise on Sociology
1916 Aug 28
C. Wright MILLS born
1916
LENIN: Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism
1916
WEBER: The Religion of China
1916-7
WEBER: The Religion of India
1917 Jan 2
Edward B. TYLOR died
1917 Nov 15
Emile DURKHEIM died
1917-9
WEBER: Ancient Judaism
1918 Sep 26
Georg SIMMEL died
1918
COOLEY: Social Process
1918-21
THOMAS & ZNANIECKI: The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (5 vols)
1919 Jan 15
"Blutige (Bloody)" Rosa LUXEMBURG died, Berlin, Germany
1919
SOROKIN: System of Sociology (2 vols)
1919
A.J. TOYNBEE: delegate to Paris Peace Conference
1919
John B. WATSON: Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist
1920 Jun 14
Max WEBER died
1921 Dec 2
Otis Dudley DUNCAN born, Nocona TX
1921
Martin BUBER: I and Thou
1921
BURGESS: The Science of Sociology (w/ Park)
1921
PARK: (w/ Burgess) An Introduction to the Science of Sociology
1921
SAPIR: Language: an Introduction to the Study of Speech
1921
WEBER: The City
1922 Mar 18
Seymour Martin LIPSET born, New York NY
1922
CARR-SAUNDERS: The Population Problem
1922
John DEWEY: Human Nature and Conduct
1922
Robert PARK: The immigrant press and its control
1822
RADCLIFFE-BROWN: The Andaman Islanders
1922
WEBER: Economy and Society (2 vols)
1923
Karl MANNHEIM: On the interpretation of Weltanschauung
1923
William F. OGBURN: Social change with respect to culture and original nature
1923 Aug 20
Vilfredo PARETO died
1923
LUKACS: History and Class Consciousness
1923
MEAD: "Scientific Method and the Moral Sciences"
1923
OGBURN: Social Change
1923
THOMAS: The Unadjusted Girl
1923
WHEELER: Social Life Among the Insects
1924
Max SCHELER (1874-28): Essays toward a Sociology of Knowledge
1924
MEAD: "The Genesis of the Self and Social Control"
1924
SMALL: Origins of Sociology
1925
BURGESS: The City (w/ Park)
1925
LOTKA: Elements of Physical Biology
1925
Karl MANNHEIM: The Problem of a Sociology of Knowledge
1926 Mar 24
Albion Woodbury SMALL died
1926 May 12
James Samuel COLEMAN born, Bedford IN
1926-8
SPENGLER: The Decline of the West (2 vols)
1927
John DEWEY: The Public and its Problems
1927
SOROKIN: Social Mobility
1928
William F. OGBURN: American marriage and family relationships [w/ Ernest Rutherford Groves]
1928
SOROKIN: Contemporary Sociological Theories
1928
THOMAS: The Child in America
1928
WIRTH: The Ghetto
1929 Aug 3
Thorstein VEBLEN died
1929 May 8
Charles Horton COOLEY died
1930
COOLEY: Sociological Theory and Social Research
1931 Apr 26
George Herbert MEAD died
1931 Jun 11
Franklin H. GIDDINGS died
1931
ALLEE: Animal Aggregations
1933
OGBURN: Recent Social Trends in the United States
1933
W.S. THOMPSON and P.K. WHELPTON: Population Trends in the United States
1934
BENEDICT: Patterns of Culture
1934
William F. OGBURN: You and machines
1935 May 21
Jane ADDAMS died, Chicago IL
1935
Houston Stuart CHAPIN: Contemporary American Institutions
1935-61
TOYNBEE: A Study of History (12 vols)
1936 Feb 27
Ivan Petrovich PAVLOV died, Leningrad [St. Petersburg]
1936
TOENNIES: Introduction to Sociology
1936 Apr 9
Ferdinand TOENNIES died, Kiel, Germany
1936 Apr 27
Karl PEARSON died, London, England
1936 May 3
Robert MICHELS died, Rome
1936 May 8
Oswald SPENGLER died
1936
OGBURN: The Social Effects of Aviation
1936
TOENNIES: Introduction to Sociology
1936
WIRTH: Ideology and Utopia (w/ Mannheim)
1937 Apr 19
Joseph WHEELER died, Cambridge MA
1937 Oct 16
William Sealey GOSSET (Student's t-test) died, Beaconsfield, England
1937
PARSONS: Structure of Social Action
1937-41
SOROKIN: Social and Cultural Dynamics (4 vols)
1938
ALLEE: The Social Life of Animals
1939 Feb 4
Edward SAPIR died, New Haven CT
1939 Sep 23
Sigmund FREUD died
1939 Dec 27
Ed STEPHAN born, Los Angeles CA
1939
LUNDBERG: Foundations of Sociology
1939
PEARL: The Natural History of Population
1939
ELIAS: The Civilizing Process
1940 Nov 17
Raymond PEARL died, Hershey PA
1940
OGBURN: Sociology (w/ Nimkoff)
1941 Mar 18
Werner SOMBART died, Berlin, Germany
1941 Jul 26
Benjamin Lee WHORF died, Wethersfield CT
1941 Nov 8
Gaetano MOSCA died, Rome, Italy
1942 May 16
Bronislaw Kasper MALINOWSKI died, New Haven CT
1942 Dec 22
Franz BOAS died, New York NY
1942
DODD: Dimensions of Society
1943
William F. OGBURN: American society in wartime
1943
SOROKIN: Sociocultural Causality, Time and Space
1944 Feb 7
Robert Ezra PARK died
1945
BURGESS: Predicting Success or Failure in Marriage (w/ L Cottrell, Jr.)
1945
BURGESS: The Family (w/ H. Locke)
1945
Gladys BRYSON: Man and Society: the Scottish Inquiry of the Eighteenth Century
1947 Dec 5
William Isaac THOMAS died
1947
LUNDBERG: Can Science Save Us?
1947
Nicholas RASHEVSKY: Mathematical Theory of Human Relations
1947
SOROKIN: Society, Culture and Personality
1948 Sep 17
Ruth BENEDICT died, New York NY
1948
Kinglsey DAVIS: Human Society
1948
MILLS: The new men of power, America's labor leaders
1949
George ZIPF: Human behavior and the principle of least effort; an introduction to human ecology
1949
OGBURN: Technology and International Relations
1949
PARSONS: Essays in Sociological Theory, Pure and Applied
1950
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1950
Amos HAWLEY: Human ecology; a theory of community structure.
1950
James A. QUINN: Human Ecology
1950
George Casper HOMANS: The Human Group
1950
PARK: Race and Culture
1951
Rosa LUXEMBURG: The Accumulation of Capital
1951
MILLS: White Collar
1951
PARSONS: The Social System
1951
PARSONS: Toward a General Theory of Action
1951
THOMAS: Social Behavior and Personality
1952 May 3
Louis WIRTH died, Buffalo, NY
1952
Marion LEVY: The Structure of Society
1952
PARK: Human Communnities
1953
MILLS: Character and social structure: the psychology of social institutions [w/ Hans Gerth
1954
Lewis COSER: The Functions of Social Conflict
1954
Amos HAWLEY: Papers in demography and public administration
1954
MILLS: Mass Society and Liberal Education
1955 Mar 18
Warder Clyde ALLEE died, Gainesville FL
1955
PARK: Society
1955
PARSONS: Family, Socialization and Interaction Process
1956
MILLS: The Power Elite
1956
Ralf DAHRENDORF: Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society
1958
MILLS: The causes of World War Three
1959
DAVIS: "The myth of functional analysis" ASR
1959
MILLS: The Sociological Imagination
1959 Apr 27
William Fielding OGBURN died
1960 Oct 5
Alfred Louis KROEBER died, Paris, France
1960
MILLS: Images of Man; the classic tradition in sociological thinking
1960
MILLS: Listen Yankee: The Revolution in Cuba
1961
HOMANS: Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms
1962
MILLS: The Marxists
1962 Mar 20
C. Wright MILLS died
1962 Jul 29
Ronald Aylmer FISHER died, Adelaide, Australia
1962
V.C. WYNNE-EDWARDS: Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behaviour
1963 Aug 27
W.E.B. du BOIS dies, Accra, Ghana
1963 Aug 28
W.E.B. du BOIS eulogized by Martin Luther King, Jr., as the March on Washington begins
1963
MILLS: Power, politics, and people; the collected essays of C. Wright Mills [Edited I.L. Horowitz]
1964
Peter M. BLAU: Exchange and Power in Social Life
1964
MACIVER: Social Causation
1964
MILLS: The new sociology; essays in social science and social theory, in honor of C. Wright Mills.
1964
MILLS: Sociology and pragmatism: the higher learning in America [Edited I.L. Horowitz]
1964
William F. OGBURN: On culture and social change; selected papers [Ed. Otis Dudley Duncan]
1965 Mar 13
Corrado GINI died, Rome
1965
Ralph THOMLINSON: Population Dynamics
1965
George ZIPF: The psycho-biology of language; an introduction to dynamic philology.
1966 Oct 6
Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders died, Thirmere, Cumberland, England
1966 Dec 27
Ernest Watson BURGESS died
1966 Apr 14
George A. LUNDBERG died, Seattle, WA
1967
COSER: Continuities in the Study of Social Conflict
1967
HOMANS: The Nature of Social Science
1967
Alfred SCHUTZ: The Phenomenology of the Social World
1968 Feb 10
Pitirim SOROKIN died
1968
Ralf DAHRENDORF: Essays in the Theory of Society
1968
Amos HAWLEY: Roderick D. McKenzie on human ecology; selected writings. [ed]
1968
Robert K. MERTON: Social Theory and Social Structure
1969
BOGUE: Principles of Demography
1969
Herbert BLUMER: Symbolic Interactionism: Perspectives and Methods
1970 Jun 15
Robert M. MACIVER died
1970
Amos HAWLEY: The metropolitan community; its people and government [W/ Basil G. Zimmer]
1970
Robin WILLIAMS: American Society: A Sociological Interpretation
1971
Henry S. SHRYOCK and Jacob S. SIEGEL: The Methods and Materials of Demography (2 vols)
1975 Oct 22
Arnold Joseph TOYNBEE died
1976 Aug 30
Paul Felix LAZARSFELD died, New York NY
1976 Nov 15
Margaret MEAD died, New York NY
1979 May 8
Talcott PARSONS died
1979 Jul 29
Herbert MARCUSE died, Starnberg, Germany
1980 Mar 18
Erich FROMM died, Muralto, Switzerland
1984 Jul 26
George Horace GALLUP died, Tschingel, Switzerland
1985
Roland PRESSAT: The Dictionary of Demography [French, 1979]
1986
Amos HAWLEY: Human ecology : a theoretical essay / Amos H. Hawley.
1990
Norbert ELIAS died, Amsterdam
1995 Mar 25
James Samuel COLEMAN died, Chicago IL
1995 Aug 18
STEPHAN:The Division of Territory in Society
John GRAUNT born London
1623 May 26
William PETTY born Hampshire
1632 Aug 29
John LOCKE born Wrington, Somerset
1632 Nov 24
Benedict (or Baruch) SPINOZA born Amsterdam
1642
Thomas HOBBES: De Cive, Aubrey's 'Life'
1651
Thomas HOBBES:Leviathan
1662
John GRAUNT: Observations on the Bills of Mortality
1668 Jun 23
Giambattista VICO born Naples
1670
SPINOZA: A Theologico-Political Treatise
1670
Bernard MANDEVILLE born Dordrecht, Holland
1671
SHAFTESBURY (Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl) born
1674 Apr 18
John GRAUNT died
1676
William PETTY: Political Arithmetick
1677 Feb 21
Baruch SPINOZA died
1677
SPINOZA: Ethics
1677
SPINOZA: On the Improvement of the Understanding
1679 Dec 4
Thomas HOBBES died
1682
William PETTY: (Another) Essay on Political Arithmetick
1683
William PETTY: Observations on the Dublin Bills of Mortality
1685 Mar 12
George BERKELEY born Dublin
1687 Dec 16
William PETTY died
1689 Jan 18
Charles de Secondat, Baron de MONTESQUIEU born Château La Brède, near Bordeaux
1690
John LOCKE: Essay Concerning Human Understanding
1690
John LOCKE: Second Treatise on Government
1694
Francis HUTCHESON born
1700
1600 1700 1750 1800 1850 1900 1950
1704 Oct 28
John LOCKE died
1710
BERKELEY: Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
1711 Apr 26
David HUME born Edinburgh; 2nd site
1711
SHAFTESBURY: Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, Etc.
1712
Jean Jacques ROUSSEAU born in Geneva, Switzerland
1713
SHAFTESBURY died
1714
MANDEVILLE: The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vises, Public Benefits
1721
MONTESQUIEU: Persian Letters
1723 Jun 5
Adam SMITH born Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland
1723 Jun 20
Adam FERGUSON born
1724
Immanuel KANT born Königsberg (Kaliningrad) , East Prussia
1726
John HOWARD born Enfield, England
1725
HUTCHESON: An Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
1727 May 10
Anne-Robert-Jacques TURGOT born Paris
1728
HUTCHESON: Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections
1729 Jan 12
Edmund BURKE born Dublin
1733
Bernard MANDEVILLE died
1732
MANDEVILLE: An Enquiry into the Origin of Honour
1734
MONTESQUIEU: Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their decline
1735
BERKELEY: The Querist
1737 Jan 29
Thomas PAINE born Thetford, Norfolk, Eng.
1739
HUME: Treatise on Human Nature
1743 Sep 17
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de CONDORCET born Ribemont, France
1744 Jan 23
Giambattista VICO died
1746
Francis HUTHESON died Glasgow
1747
HUTCHESON: Short Inroduction to Moral Philosophy
1748 Feb 15
Jeremy BENTHAM born Houndsditch, London
1748
HUME: Philosophical Essays
1748
HUME: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding text
1748
MONTESQUIEU: Spirit of Laws
1750
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1750
ROUSSEAU: First Discourse
1751
HUME: Enquiry Concering the Principles of Morals
1751
ROUSSEAU: Discourses on the Sciences and the Arts
1753 Apr 1
Comte Joseph Marie de MAISTRE born
1754 Oct 2
Louis G. de BONALD born
1755 Feb 10
Charles de MONTESQUIEU died
1755
HUTCHESON: System of Moral Philosophy
1755
ROUSSEAU: A Discourse upon the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind (aka Second Discourse)
1756 Mar 3
William GODWIN born
1757
HUME: The Natural History of Religion
1759 Apr 27
Mary WOLLSTONECRAFT born London
1759
SMITH: Theory of Moral Sentiments, discussion of
1760 Oct 17
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de SAINT-SIMON born Paris
1762
ROUSSEU: Emile, a Treatise on Education
1762
ROUSSEAU: The Social Contract
1766 Feb 17
Thomas MALTHUS born
1766
TURGOT: Reflections on the Formation of Riches
1767
FERGUSON: An Essay on the History of Civil Society; a discussed
1770 Aug 27
Georg Frederick HEGEL born
1771 May 14
Robert OWEN born
1772 Apr 7
(François Marie) Charles FOURIER born
1775 Mar 8
PAINE: African Slavery in America
1776 Jan 10
PAINE: Common Sense
1776
BENTHAM: Fragment on Government
1776
SMITH: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
1777 Aug 25
David HUME died
1777
HOWARD: The State of Prisons (description)
1779
HUME: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
1779
John MILLAR: The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks
1781 Mar 20
Jacques TURGOT died
1781
KANT: Critique of Pure Reason
1782-89
ROUSSEAU: Confessions
1784
KANT: Idea for a Universal History...
1784-91
Johann Gottfried von HERDER: Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind
1785
KANT: Grundlegung
1786
WOLLSTONECRAFT: Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (pamphlet)
1787
BENTHAM: Defense of Usury
1788 Feb 22
Arthur SCHOPENHAUER born
1788
KANT: Critique of Practical Reason
1789
BENTHAM: Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
1790 Jan 20
John HOWARD died, Kherson, Ukraine, Russia
1790 Mar 1
first United States census began
1790 Jul 17
Adam SMITH died
1790
United States conducts first regular census
1790
BURKE: Reflections on the Revolution in France
1790
WOLLSTONECRAFT: A Vindication Of The Rights Of Men (response to BURKE)
1792
FERGUSON: Pricniples of Moral and Political Science
1792
PAINE: The Rights of Man
1792
WOLLSTONECRAFT: Vindication of the Rights of Women
1793 Dec 15
Henry Charles CAREY born
1793
CONDORCET: Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind
1793
GODWIN: Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
1794 Mar 29
Marie-Jean, Marquis de CONDORCET died
1795 Dec 4
Thomas CARLYLE born
1795
CONDORCET: History Essay on the Progress of Human Reason
1795
PAINE: The Age of Reason
1795
SMITH: Philosophical Essays
1795-1809
HEGEL: On Christianity: Early Theological writings
1796 Feb 22
Adolphe QUETELET born
1796
BONALD: Theory of Political and Religious Authority in Civil Society
1797 Mar 29
WOLLSTONECRAFT & GODWIN marry privately
1797 Sep 10
Mary WOLLSTONECRAFT died (Mary born Aug 30
1797 Jul 9
Edmund BURKE died
1797
MAISTRE: Considérations sur la France
1798 Jan 17
Auguste COMTE born (birth registered Jan 19)
1798 Jun 7
MALTHUS: Essay on the Principle of Population
1798
GODWIN: Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft
1798
WOLLSTONECRAFT: Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
1800
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1802 Jun 12
Harriet MARTINEAU born, Norwich, England
1804 Jul 28
Ludwig FEUERBACH born
1724
Immanuel KANT died Königsberg, East Prussia
1805 Jul 29
Alexis de TOCQUEVILLE born
1806 Apr 11
Fréderic LE PLAY born
1806
John Stuart MILL born
1806
Johann Gottlieb FICHTE: Characterstic of the Present Age
1807
HEGEL: The Phenomenology of Mind
1809 Feb 12
Charles Robert DARWIN born, Shrewsbury, England
1809 Jun 8
Thomas PAINE died
1812-1816
HEGEL: Science of Logic
1813
SAINT-SIMON: Essay on Science of Man
1813
OWEN: A New View of Society
1814
MAISTRE: Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions
1814
SAINT-SIMON: The Reorganization of European Society
1816 Feb 22
Adam FERGUSON died
1816 Jul 14
Arthur de GOBINEAU born
1817
HEGEL: Encyclopedia of Philosophy
1817
RICARDO: Principles of Political Economy
1818
(Mary WOLLSTONECRAFT) Shelley: Frankenstein
1818 May 5
Karl MARX born
1818 Nov 21
Lewis Henry MORGAN born
1818
SCHOPENHAUER: The World as Will and Idea
1818-31
HEGEL teaches in Berlin
1820 Apr 27
Herbert SPENCER born
1820 Nov 28
Friedrich ENGELS born, Barmen, Germany
1820
MALTHUS: Principles of Political Economy
1821 Feb 26
Comte Joseph Marie de MAISTRE died
1821 Nov 21
Henry T. BUCKLE born
1821
HEGEL: The Philosophy of Right
1821
James MILL: Principles of Political Economy
1822 Feb 16
Francis GALTON born
1822
COMTE: Plan of the Scientific Operations Necessary for Reorganizing Society
1823-33
Utilitarian Society flourishes in Britain
1825 May 19
Henri de SAINT-SIMON died
1825
SAINT-SIMON: New Christianity
1825-35
Saint-Simonians flourish in France
1826 Feb 3
Walter BAGEHOT born
1830-42
COMTE: The Positive Philosophy (6 vols), 1830, 1835, 1838, 1839, 1841, 1842
1831 Feb 24
Albert SCHÄFFLE born
1831 Nov 14
Georg Frederick HEGEL died
1831
DARWIN: sails on the H.M.S. Beagle
1832 Jun 6
Jeremy BENTHAM died
1832 Oct 2
Edward B. TYLOR born
1832-4
MARTINEAU: Illustrations of Political Economy
1833
MARTINEAU: Poor Laws and Paupers
1833-43
Young Hegelians flourish in Germany
1834 Dec 23
Thomas MALTHUS died
1834
MARTINEAU: Illustrations of Taxation
1834
MARTINEAU settled in London, consulted by cabinent ministers
1834 Sep-1836 Aug
MARTINEAU visits America, gives offense through abolitionist views
1835
CAREY: Essay on the Rate of Wages
1835
QUETELET: On Man and the Development of Human Faculties: An Essay on Social Physics
1835-40
TOCQUEVILLE: Democracy in America
1836 Apr 7
William GODWIN died
1837 Oct 10
(François Marie) Charles FOURIER died
1837
CARLYLE: French Revolution
1837
HEGEL: The Philosophy of History
1837
MARTINEAU: Society in America note
1837-1840
CAREY: Principles of Political Economy
1838 Mar 9
Ludwig GUMPLOWICZ born
1840 Nov 23
Louis G. de BONALD died
1840
PROUDHON: What is Property?
1841 Jun 18
Lester Frank WARD born
1841
CARLYLE: On Heroes
1841
FEUERBACH: The Essence of Christianity
1842 Jan 11
William JAMES born
1842 May 5
MARX writes first article for Rheinische Zeitung
1842
FEUERBACH: Preparatory Theses on the Reform of Philosophy
1842
SPENCER: "The Proper Sphere of Government," The Nonconformist
1842
Lorenz von STEIN: Socialism and Communism in France
1843 Mar 12
Gabriel TARDE born
1843
FEUERBACH: Principles of the Philosophy of the Future
1843
MARX: Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
1843
J.S. MILL: System of Logic
1844 Oct 15
Friedrich Wilheim NIETZSCHE born
1844
FEUERBACH: The Essence of Religion
1844
MARX: Contribution to the Critique of Hegel'S Philosophy of Law
1844
ENGELS: Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy
1844
ENGELS: Review of Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present
1844-5
MARX: The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
1845
MARTINEAU settles at Ambleside in English Lake District
1844
MARX: Theses on Feuerbach
1845-55
Positivist Society flourishes in France
1845-46
MARX: The German Ideology
1847
ENGELS: The Principles of Communism
1847
MARX: The Poverty of Philosophy
1848 Jul 15
Vilfredo PARETO born
1848
CAREY: The Past, the Present, and the Future
1848
MARTINEAU: Eastern Life, Present and Past (expounds philosophical atheism)
1848
MARX: Communist Manifesto
1848
J.S. MILL: Principles of Political Economy
1849 Sep 26
Ivan Petrovich PAVLOV born, Ryazan, Russia [Sep 14 Old style]
1849
MARTINEAU: History of England During the Thirty Years' Peace 1816-46
1849
MARX: Wage-Labor and Capital
1850
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1850
ENGELS: The Peasants' War in Germany
1850
MARX and ENGELS: England's 17th c. Revolution
1850
MARX: The Class Struggle in France, 1848 to 1850
1850
SPENCER: Social Statics
1850
Lorenz von STEIN: The History of the Social Movement in France, 1789-1850
1851
CAREY: The Harmony of Interests
1851
MARTINEAU: Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development (agnostic views which aliented her friends)
1851-1854
COMTE: System of Positive Polity (4 vols)
1852
MARX: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
1852 Aug 23
Arnold TOYNBEE born (sociologist uncle of THE Arnold Toynbee)
1853
CAREY: The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists and How it May be Extinguished
1853
MARTINEAU translates and extensively edits Comte's Positive Philosophy
1853-5
GOBINEAU: Essay on the Inequality of Human Races
1854 May 11
Albion Woodbury SMALL born, Buckfield, Maine
1855 Mar 23
Franklin H. GIDDINGS born
1855
Achille GUILLARD coins "demographie"
1855 Jul 26
Ferdinand TOENNIES born near Oldenswort, Schleswig
1855
LE PLAY: The European Workers, (6 vols)
1856 May 6
Sigmund FREUD born
1856
TOCQUEVILLE: Old Regime
1857 Mar 23
Karl PEARSON born, London, England
1857 Jul 30
Thorstein VEBLEN born
1857 Sep 5
Auguste COMTE died
1857-61
BUCKLE: The History of Civilization in England
1857
MARX: Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations
1857-8
MARX: Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
1858 Mar 1
Georg SIMMEL born
1858 Apr 1
Gaetano MOSCA born, Palermo, Sicily
1858 Apr 15
(David) Emile DURKHEIM born
1858 Jul 9
Franz BOAS born, Minden, Westphalia, Prussia [Germany]
1858 Nov 17
Robert OWEN died
1858-1860
CAREY: The Principles of Social Science
1859 Apr 16
Alexis de TOCQUEVILLE died
1859
DARWIN: The Origin of Species
1859
MARX: A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
1859
J.S. MILL: On Liberty
1860 Sep 6
Jane ADDAMS born, Cedarville IL
1860 Sep 21
Arthur SCHOPENHAUER died
1861
Henry Sumner MAINE: Ancient Law
1862 May 29
Henry T. BUCKLE died
1862
SPENCER: First Principles text version
1863 Jan 19
Werner SOMBART born, Ermsleben, Saxony, Prussia
1863 Aug 13
William Isaac THOMAS born
1863 Feb 27
George Herbert MEAD born
1864 Apr 21
Max WEBER born
1864 Aug 17
Charles Horton COOLEY born
1864 Feb 14
Robert Ezra PARK born
1864
Fustel de COULANGES: The Ancient City
1864
LE PLAY: Social Reform in France (3 vols)
1864
SPENCER: Reason for Dissenting from the Politivist Philosphy of M. Comte
1864-67
SPENCER: Principles of Biology (2 vols)
1865 Mar 19
Joseph WHEELER born, Milwaukee WI
1865
GOBINEAU: The Religions and Philosophies of Central Asia
1865
MARX:Value, Price, and Profit
1865
J.S. MILL: Auguste Comte and Positivism
1867-8
MARX: Capital (vol I)
1868 Feb 23
(William Edward Burghardt) W.E.B. du BOIS born, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
1869
GALTON: Hereditary Genius
1869
RENOUVIER: Science of Ethics
1870-72
SPENCER: Principles of Psychology (2 vols)
1871 Mar 5
"Blutige (Bloody)" Rosa LUXEMBURG born, Zamoshc, Poland
1871
DARWIN: The Descent of Man
1871
GALTON: A Statistical Enquiry into the Efficacy of Prayer
1871
MARX: The Civil War in France
1871
LE PLAY: Organization of the Family
1871
TYLOR: Primitive Culture
1872 Sep 13
Ludwig FEUERBACH died
1872
DARWIN: Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals
1872
BAGEHOT: Physics and Politics
1872
CAREY: The Unity of Law
1872
LE PLAY: Organization of Labor
1872
John Stuart MILL died
1873
SPENCER: Study of Sociology
1873-81
LILIENFELD: Ideas about the Social Sciences of the Future, (5 vols)
1874 Feb 17
Adolphe QUETELET died
1874
GALTON: English Men of Science
1875
GUMPLOWICZ: Race and State
1875
MARX: Critique of the Gotha Program
1875-78
SCHÄFFLE: Structure and Life of the Social Body (4 vols)
1876-8
ENGELS: The Part Played by Labour in the Transition From Ape to Man
1876 Jan 9
Robert MICHELS born, Cologne
1876 Jun 11
Alfred Louis KROEBER born, Hoboken NJ
1876 Jun 13
William Sealey GOSSET ("Student") born, Canterbury, England
1876 Jun 27
Harriet MARTINEAU died, near Ambleside, England
1876-96
SPENCER: Principles of Sociology (3 vols: 76, 82, 96)
1877 Mar 24
Walter BAGEHOT died
1877
ENGELS: Anti-Dühring
1877
MARTINEAU: Autobiographical Memoir
1877
MORGAN: Ancient Society
1879 Jun 3
Raymond PEARL born, Farmington NH
1879 Oct 13
Henry Charles CAREY died
1879-93
SPENCER: Principles of Ethics (2 vols)
1880 May 29
Oswald SPENGLER born
1880
ENGELS: Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
1880
FOUILLEE: Contemporary Social Science
1881 Dec 17
Lewis Henry MORGAN died
1881 Feb 5
Thomas CARLYLE died
1881
LE PLAY: Essential Constitution of Humanity
1882 Apr 5
Fréderic LE PLAY died
1882 Apr 17
Robert M. MACIVER born
1882 Apr 19
Charles Robert DARWIN died, Down, Kent, England
1882 Oct 13
Arthur de GOBINEAU died
1883 Mar 14
Karl MARX died
1883
Francis GALTON: Inquiries into human faculty and its development
1883
GUMPLOWICZ: Race Struggle
1883
SUMNER: What the Social Classes Owe to Each Other
1883
WARD: Dynamic Sociology (2 vol)
1883 Mar 9
Arnold TOYNBEE died (sociologist uncle of THE Arnold Toynbee)
1884 Jan 26
Edward SAPIR born, Lauenburg, Pomerania, Germany
1884 Apr 7
Bronislaw Kasper MALINOWSKI born, Krakow, Poland
1884 May 23
Corrado GINI born, Motta de Livenza, Treviso, Italy
1884
ENGELS: The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
1884
TOYNBEE: Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England
1884
SPENCER: The Man versus the State
1885 Jun 5
Warder Clyde ALLEE born, near Bloomingdale IN
1885
GUMPLOWICZ: Outline of Sociology
1885
MARX: Capital, Vol. II (post.)
1886 Jan 14
Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders born, Reigate, Surrey, England
1886 Jun 29
William Fielding OGBURN born
1886 May 16
Ernest Watson BURGESS born
1886
Achille LORIA: Economic Foundations of Society
1887 Jun 5
Ruth BENEDICT born, New York NY
1887
Karl KAUTSKY: The Economic Doctrines of Karl Marx
1887
TOENNIES: Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft
1889 Jan 21
Pitirim SOROKIN born
1889 Apr 14
Arnold Joseph TOYNBEE born in London
1889
ADDAMS founds Hull House settlement in Chicago
1889
Franz BOAS: The Aims of Ethnology
1889
Francis GALTON: Natural inheritance.
1890 Feb 17
Ronald Aylmer FISHER born, London, England
1890
FOUILLEE: The Evolution of Idea-Forces
1890
William JAMES: Principles of Psychology
1890
MARSHALL: Principles of Economics
1890
TARDE: Laws of Imitation
1891
Georg SIMMEL: On Social Differentiation
1892
DURKHEIM: Montesquieu - Quid Secundatus Politicae Scientiae Instituendae Contulerit (latin thesis)
1892
SMALL: First Sociology Department (University of Chicago
1892
PEARSON: Grammar of Science
1892
George SIMMEL: Problems of the Philosophy of History
1893
DURKHEIM: On the Division of Labor in Society
1893
FOUILLEE: The Psychology of Idea-Forces
1893
Jacques NOVICOW: The Struggles between Human Societies and Their Necessary Phases
1893
RATZENHOFER: Nature and End of Politics
1893
WARD: Psychic Factors of Civilization
1894
Benjamin KIDD: Social Evolution
1894
MARX: Capital, Vol III (post.)
1894
SMALL: first textbook in Sociology
1894
SUMNER: The Absurd Effort to Make the the World Over
1894
TARDE: Social Logic
1895
DURKHEIM: Rules of Sociological Method
1895 Aug 5
Friedrich ENGELS died, London, England
1895 Oct 3
George A. LUNDBERG born, Fairdale, North Dakota
1896
W.E.B. du BOIS receives Ph.D., Harvard, dissertation: The Suppression of the African Slave Trade; becomes instructor of Sociology, the University of Pennsylvania
1896
W.E.B. du BOIS: The Philadelphia Negro [first sociological analysis of African Americans in the US]
1896
Gustav Le BON: The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
1896
John DEWEY: The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology
1896
GIDDINGS: Principles of Sociology
1896
WEBER: The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations
1896
Rene WORMS: Organism and Society
1897 Apr 24
Benjamin Lee WHORF born, Winthrop MA
1897 Jun 2
Norbert ELIAS born, Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland)
1897 Aug 28
Louis WIRTH born, Gemunden, Germany
1897
DURKHEIM: Suicide
1897
PARETO: Course in Political Economy
1897
TARDE: Universal Opposition
1898 Jul 19
Herbert MARCUSE born, Berlin, Germany
1898
John DEWEY: Evolution and Ethics
1898-00
DURKHEIM: Professional Ethics and Civic Morals
1898
GIDDINGS: Elements of Sociology
1898
KAUTSKY: The Agrarian Problem
1898
RATZENHOFER: Sociological Studies
1898
TARDE: Social Laws
1898
WARD: Outline of Sociology
1899
Eduard BERNSTEIN: Evolutionary Socialism: a Criticism and Affirmations
1899
CHAMBERLAIN: The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century
1899
COSTE: Principles of Objective Sociology
1899
DURKHEIM: Collective and Individual Representations
1899
VEBLEN: Theory of the Leisure Class
1900
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1900 Mar 23
Erich FROMM born, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1900 Aug 25
Friedrich Wilheim NIETZSCHE died
1900
COSTE: Expriences of the Peoples
1900
DURKHEIM: Two Laws of Penal Evolution
1900
Stuart C. DODD born
1900
FREUD: The Interpretation of Dreams
1900
Karl PEARSON: The grammar of science
1900
George SIMMEL: Philosophy of Money
1901 Feb 13
Paul Felix LAZARSFELD born, Vienna, Austria
1901 Nov 18
George Horace GALLUP born, Jefferson IA
1901 Nov 19
Karl PEARSON: National life from the standpoint of science
1901 Dec 16
Margaret MEAD born, Philadelphia PA
1902 Dec 13
Talcott PARSONS born
1902
COOLEY: Human Nature and Social Order
1902-03
DURKHEIM: Moral Education
1902
KAUTSKY: The Social Revolution
1902
LENIN: What is to be done?
1903 Dec 8
Herbert SPENCER died
1903 Dec 25
Albert SCHÄFFLE died
1903
WARD: Pure Sociology
1903
du BOIS: The Souls of Black Folk
1904 May 13
Gabriel TARDE died
1904
PARK: The Crowd and the Public
1904
SPENCER: An Autobiography (2 vols)
1904
VEBLEN: The Theory of Business Enterprise
1904
WEBER: Objectivity in Social Science & Social Policy
1904 Sep-Dec
WEBER visits United States (St. Louis Exposition)
1905
SMALL: General Sociology
1906
HOBHOUSE: Morals in Evolution
1906
SCHÄFFLE: Outline of Sociology
1906
SUMNER: Folkways
1906
WARD: Applied Sociology
1906
WEBER: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
1907
William JAMES: Pragmatism
1907
WEBER: Critique of Stammler
1908 Aug 20
Kingsley DAVIS born, Tuxedo TX
1908
RATZENHOFER: Sociology
1908
SIMMEL:Soziologie
1909 Aug 19
Ludwig GUMPLOWICZ died
1909
COOLEY: Social Organization
1909
THOMAS: Source Book of Social Origins
1910 Jul 5
Robert King MERTON born, Philadelphia PA
1910 Aug 26
William JAMES died
1910
WHEELER: Ants: Their Structure, Development, and Behavior
1911 Jan 17
Francis GALTON died
1911
DURKHEIM: Judgments of Reality and Judgments of Value
1912
DURKHEIM: Elementary Forms of Religious Life
1912
GINI: Demographic Factors in the Evolution of Nations
1913 Apr 18
Lester Frank WARD died
1913
MEAD: The Social Self
1914-30
Karl PEARSON: The life, letters and labours of Francis Galton
1915
Robert MICHELS: Political Parties
1915
PARETO: General Treatise on Sociology
1916 Aug 28
C. Wright MILLS born
1916
LENIN: Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism
1916
WEBER: The Religion of China
1916-7
WEBER: The Religion of India
1917 Jan 2
Edward B. TYLOR died
1917 Nov 15
Emile DURKHEIM died
1917-9
WEBER: Ancient Judaism
1918 Sep 26
Georg SIMMEL died
1918
COOLEY: Social Process
1918-21
THOMAS & ZNANIECKI: The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (5 vols)
1919 Jan 15
"Blutige (Bloody)" Rosa LUXEMBURG died, Berlin, Germany
1919
SOROKIN: System of Sociology (2 vols)
1919
A.J. TOYNBEE: delegate to Paris Peace Conference
1919
John B. WATSON: Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist
1920 Jun 14
Max WEBER died
1921 Dec 2
Otis Dudley DUNCAN born, Nocona TX
1921
Martin BUBER: I and Thou
1921
BURGESS: The Science of Sociology (w/ Park)
1921
PARK: (w/ Burgess) An Introduction to the Science of Sociology
1921
SAPIR: Language: an Introduction to the Study of Speech
1921
WEBER: The City
1922 Mar 18
Seymour Martin LIPSET born, New York NY
1922
CARR-SAUNDERS: The Population Problem
1922
John DEWEY: Human Nature and Conduct
1922
Robert PARK: The immigrant press and its control
1822
RADCLIFFE-BROWN: The Andaman Islanders
1922
WEBER: Economy and Society (2 vols)
1923
Karl MANNHEIM: On the interpretation of Weltanschauung
1923
William F. OGBURN: Social change with respect to culture and original nature
1923 Aug 20
Vilfredo PARETO died
1923
LUKACS: History and Class Consciousness
1923
MEAD: "Scientific Method and the Moral Sciences"
1923
OGBURN: Social Change
1923
THOMAS: The Unadjusted Girl
1923
WHEELER: Social Life Among the Insects
1924
Max SCHELER (1874-28): Essays toward a Sociology of Knowledge
1924
MEAD: "The Genesis of the Self and Social Control"
1924
SMALL: Origins of Sociology
1925
BURGESS: The City (w/ Park)
1925
LOTKA: Elements of Physical Biology
1925
Karl MANNHEIM: The Problem of a Sociology of Knowledge
1926 Mar 24
Albion Woodbury SMALL died
1926 May 12
James Samuel COLEMAN born, Bedford IN
1926-8
SPENGLER: The Decline of the West (2 vols)
1927
John DEWEY: The Public and its Problems
1927
SOROKIN: Social Mobility
1928
William F. OGBURN: American marriage and family relationships [w/ Ernest Rutherford Groves]
1928
SOROKIN: Contemporary Sociological Theories
1928
THOMAS: The Child in America
1928
WIRTH: The Ghetto
1929 Aug 3
Thorstein VEBLEN died
1929 May 8
Charles Horton COOLEY died
1930
COOLEY: Sociological Theory and Social Research
1931 Apr 26
George Herbert MEAD died
1931 Jun 11
Franklin H. GIDDINGS died
1931
ALLEE: Animal Aggregations
1933
OGBURN: Recent Social Trends in the United States
1933
W.S. THOMPSON and P.K. WHELPTON: Population Trends in the United States
1934
BENEDICT: Patterns of Culture
1934
William F. OGBURN: You and machines
1935 May 21
Jane ADDAMS died, Chicago IL
1935
Houston Stuart CHAPIN: Contemporary American Institutions
1935-61
TOYNBEE: A Study of History (12 vols)
1936 Feb 27
Ivan Petrovich PAVLOV died, Leningrad [St. Petersburg]
1936
TOENNIES: Introduction to Sociology
1936 Apr 9
Ferdinand TOENNIES died, Kiel, Germany
1936 Apr 27
Karl PEARSON died, London, England
1936 May 3
Robert MICHELS died, Rome
1936 May 8
Oswald SPENGLER died
1936
OGBURN: The Social Effects of Aviation
1936
TOENNIES: Introduction to Sociology
1936
WIRTH: Ideology and Utopia (w/ Mannheim)
1937 Apr 19
Joseph WHEELER died, Cambridge MA
1937 Oct 16
William Sealey GOSSET (Student's t-test) died, Beaconsfield, England
1937
PARSONS: Structure of Social Action
1937-41
SOROKIN: Social and Cultural Dynamics (4 vols)
1938
ALLEE: The Social Life of Animals
1939 Feb 4
Edward SAPIR died, New Haven CT
1939 Sep 23
Sigmund FREUD died
1939 Dec 27
Ed STEPHAN born, Los Angeles CA
1939
LUNDBERG: Foundations of Sociology
1939
PEARL: The Natural History of Population
1939
ELIAS: The Civilizing Process
1940 Nov 17
Raymond PEARL died, Hershey PA
1940
OGBURN: Sociology (w/ Nimkoff)
1941 Mar 18
Werner SOMBART died, Berlin, Germany
1941 Jul 26
Benjamin Lee WHORF died, Wethersfield CT
1941 Nov 8
Gaetano MOSCA died, Rome, Italy
1942 May 16
Bronislaw Kasper MALINOWSKI died, New Haven CT
1942 Dec 22
Franz BOAS died, New York NY
1942
DODD: Dimensions of Society
1943
William F. OGBURN: American society in wartime
1943
SOROKIN: Sociocultural Causality, Time and Space
1944 Feb 7
Robert Ezra PARK died
1945
BURGESS: Predicting Success or Failure in Marriage (w/ L Cottrell, Jr.)
1945
BURGESS: The Family (w/ H. Locke)
1945
Gladys BRYSON: Man and Society: the Scottish Inquiry of the Eighteenth Century
1947 Dec 5
William Isaac THOMAS died
1947
LUNDBERG: Can Science Save Us?
1947
Nicholas RASHEVSKY: Mathematical Theory of Human Relations
1947
SOROKIN: Society, Culture and Personality
1948 Sep 17
Ruth BENEDICT died, New York NY
1948
Kinglsey DAVIS: Human Society
1948
MILLS: The new men of power, America's labor leaders
1949
George ZIPF: Human behavior and the principle of least effort; an introduction to human ecology
1949
OGBURN: Technology and International Relations
1949
PARSONS: Essays in Sociological Theory, Pure and Applied
1950
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1950
Amos HAWLEY: Human ecology; a theory of community structure.
1950
James A. QUINN: Human Ecology
1950
George Casper HOMANS: The Human Group
1950
PARK: Race and Culture
1951
Rosa LUXEMBURG: The Accumulation of Capital
1951
MILLS: White Collar
1951
PARSONS: The Social System
1951
PARSONS: Toward a General Theory of Action
1951
THOMAS: Social Behavior and Personality
1952 May 3
Louis WIRTH died, Buffalo, NY
1952
Marion LEVY: The Structure of Society
1952
PARK: Human Communnities
1953
MILLS: Character and social structure: the psychology of social institutions [w/ Hans Gerth
1954
Lewis COSER: The Functions of Social Conflict
1954
Amos HAWLEY: Papers in demography and public administration
1954
MILLS: Mass Society and Liberal Education
1955 Mar 18
Warder Clyde ALLEE died, Gainesville FL
1955
PARK: Society
1955
PARSONS: Family, Socialization and Interaction Process
1956
MILLS: The Power Elite
1956
Ralf DAHRENDORF: Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society
1958
MILLS: The causes of World War Three
1959
DAVIS: "The myth of functional analysis" ASR
1959
MILLS: The Sociological Imagination
1959 Apr 27
William Fielding OGBURN died
1960 Oct 5
Alfred Louis KROEBER died, Paris, France
1960
MILLS: Images of Man; the classic tradition in sociological thinking
1960
MILLS: Listen Yankee: The Revolution in Cuba
1961
HOMANS: Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms
1962
MILLS: The Marxists
1962 Mar 20
C. Wright MILLS died
1962 Jul 29
Ronald Aylmer FISHER died, Adelaide, Australia
1962
V.C. WYNNE-EDWARDS: Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behaviour
1963 Aug 27
W.E.B. du BOIS dies, Accra, Ghana
1963 Aug 28
W.E.B. du BOIS eulogized by Martin Luther King, Jr., as the March on Washington begins
1963
MILLS: Power, politics, and people; the collected essays of C. Wright Mills [Edited I.L. Horowitz]
1964
Peter M. BLAU: Exchange and Power in Social Life
1964
MACIVER: Social Causation
1964
MILLS: The new sociology; essays in social science and social theory, in honor of C. Wright Mills.
1964
MILLS: Sociology and pragmatism: the higher learning in America [Edited I.L. Horowitz]
1964
William F. OGBURN: On culture and social change; selected papers [Ed. Otis Dudley Duncan]
1965 Mar 13
Corrado GINI died, Rome
1965
Ralph THOMLINSON: Population Dynamics
1965
George ZIPF: The psycho-biology of language; an introduction to dynamic philology.
1966 Oct 6
Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders died, Thirmere, Cumberland, England
1966 Dec 27
Ernest Watson BURGESS died
1966 Apr 14
George A. LUNDBERG died, Seattle, WA
1967
COSER: Continuities in the Study of Social Conflict
1967
HOMANS: The Nature of Social Science
1967
Alfred SCHUTZ: The Phenomenology of the Social World
1968 Feb 10
Pitirim SOROKIN died
1968
Ralf DAHRENDORF: Essays in the Theory of Society
1968
Amos HAWLEY: Roderick D. McKenzie on human ecology; selected writings. [ed]
1968
Robert K. MERTON: Social Theory and Social Structure
1969
BOGUE: Principles of Demography
1969
Herbert BLUMER: Symbolic Interactionism: Perspectives and Methods
1970 Jun 15
Robert M. MACIVER died
1970
Amos HAWLEY: The metropolitan community; its people and government [W/ Basil G. Zimmer]
1970
Robin WILLIAMS: American Society: A Sociological Interpretation
1971
Henry S. SHRYOCK and Jacob S. SIEGEL: The Methods and Materials of Demography (2 vols)
1975 Oct 22
Arnold Joseph TOYNBEE died
1976 Aug 30
Paul Felix LAZARSFELD died, New York NY
1976 Nov 15
Margaret MEAD died, New York NY
1979 May 8
Talcott PARSONS died
1979 Jul 29
Herbert MARCUSE died, Starnberg, Germany
1980 Mar 18
Erich FROMM died, Muralto, Switzerland
1984 Jul 26
George Horace GALLUP died, Tschingel, Switzerland
1985
Roland PRESSAT: The Dictionary of Demography [French, 1979]
1986
Amos HAWLEY: Human ecology : a theoretical essay / Amos H. Hawley.
1990
Norbert ELIAS died, Amsterdam
1995 Mar 25
James Samuel COLEMAN died, Chicago IL
1995 Aug 18
STEPHAN:The Division of Territory in Society
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History of Western Philosophy
Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
Speculation and Dispute: The Presocratics ][ Socrates
Plato: Soul and Forms ][ Society and Virtue ][ Education and Justice ][ Love
Aristotle: Logic and Physics ][ Reality and Knowledge ][ Ethics ][ Politics
Hellenistic Thought: Cosmos and Morality
Philosophy and Religion: Augustine ][ Scholasticism ][ Arab and Jewish Thought
Late Scholasticism: Bonaventure and Aquinas ][ Scotus and Ockham
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Early Modern Philosophy
Early Modern Philosophy
The Renaissance: Humanism and Science ][ Machiavelli ][ Hobbes
Descartes: Method ][ Doubt and Existence ][ Mind and Body ][ Cartesianism
Variations: Spinoza and Unity ][ Leibniz and Plurality
Locke: Origin of Ideas ][ Human Knowledge ][ Government
Extensions: Moralists and Bayle ][ Berkeley and Immaterialism
Hume: Mitigated Skepticism ][ Self and Morality ][ Religion
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Recent Modern Philosophy
Recent Modern Philosophy
The Enlightenment: British ][ Continental
Kant: Synthetic A Priori ][ Experience and Reality ][ The Moral Law
Absolute Idealism: Fichte and Hegel ][ Later Idealists
Social Concerns: Bentham and Mill ][ Marx and Engels
Other Reactions: Kierkegaard ][ Nietzsche
Pragmatism: Peirce ][ James ][ Dewey, Mead, & Addams
Contemporary Philosophy
Beginnings: Logic and Mathematics ][ Phenomenology
Philosophical Analysis: Moore ][ Russell
Alternatives: Realism ][ Logical Positivism
Linguistic Analysis: Wittgenstein ][ Ryle and Austin ][ American Analysis
Existentialism: Heidegger ][ Sartre ][ de Beauvoir
Postmodernism: Critical Theory ][ Deconstruction
Feminism: Theory ][ Ethics ][ MacKinnon
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Social Research: A Short Introduction
Social research refers to research conducted by social scientists (primarily within sociology and social psychology), but also within other disciplines such as social policy, human geography, political science, social anthropology and education. Sociologists and other social scientists study diverse things: from census data on hundreds of thousands of human beings, through the in-depth analysis of the life of a single important person to monitoring what is happening on a street today - or what was happening a few hundred years ago.
Social scientists use many different methods in order to describe, explore and understand social life. Social methods can generally be subdivided into two broad categories. Quantitative methods are concerned with attempts to quantify social phenomena and collect and analyse numerical data, and focus on the links among a smaller number of attributes across many cases. Qualitative methods, on the other hand, emphasise personal experiences and interpretation over quantification, are more concerned with understanding the meaning of social phenomena and focus on links among a larger number of attributes across relatively few cases. While very different in many aspects, both qualitative and quantitative approaches involve a systematic interaction between theories and data.
Common tools of quantitative researchers include surveys, questionnaires, and secondary analysis of statistical data that has been gathered for other purposes (for example, censuses or the results of social attitudes surveys). Commonly used qualitative methods include focus groups, participant observation, and other techniques.
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Ordinary Human Inquiry
Before the advent of sociology and application of the scientific method to social research, human inquiry was mostly based on personal experiences, and received wisdom in the form of tradition and authority. Such approaches often led to errors such as inaccurate observations, overgeneralisation, selective observations, subjectivity and lack of logic.
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Foundations of Social Research
Social research (and social science in general) is based on logic and empirical observations. Charles C. Ragin writes in his Constructing Social Research book that "Social research involved the interaction between ideas and evidence. Ideas help social researchers make sense of evidence, and researchers use evidence to extend, revise and test ideas". Social research thus attempts to create or validate theories through data collection and data analysis, and its goal is exploration, description and explanation. It should never lead or be mistaken with philosophy or belief. Social research aims to find social patterns of regularity in social life and usually deals with social groups (aggregates of individuals), not individuals themselves (although science of psychology is an exception here). Research can also be divided into pure research and applied research. Pure research has no application on real life, whereas applied research attempts to influence the real world.
There are no laws in social science that parallel the laws in the natural science. A law in social science is a universal generalization about a class of facts. A fact is an observed phenomenon, and observation means it has been seen, heard or otherwise experienced by researcher. A theory is a systematic explanation for the observations that relate to a particular aspect of social life. Concepts are the basic building blocks of theory and are abstract elements representing classes of phenomena. Axioms or postulates are basic assertions assumed to be true. Propositions are conclusions drawn about the relationships among concepts, based on analysis of axioms. Hypotheses are specified expectations about empirical reality which are derived from propositions. Social research involves testing these hypotheses to see if they are true.
Social research involves creating a theory, operationalization (measurement of variables) and observation (actual collection of data to test hypothesized relationship).
Social theories are written in the language of variables, in other words, theories describe logical relationships between variables. Variables are logical sets of attributes, with people being the 'carriers' of those variables (for example, gender can be a variable with two attributes: male and female). Variables are also divided into independent variables (data) that influences the dependent variables (which scientists are trying to explain). For example, in a study of how different dosages of a drug are related to the severity of symptoms of a disease, a measure of the severity of the symptoms of the disease is a dependent variable and the administration of the drug in specified doses is the independent variable. Researchers will compare the different values of the dependent variable (severity of the symptoms) and attempt to draw conclusions.
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Types of Explanations
Explanations in social theories can be idiographic or nomothetic. An idiographic approach to an explanation is one where the scientists seek to exhaust the idiosyncratic causes of a particular condition or event, i.e. by trying to provide all possible explanations of a particular case. Nomothetic explanations tend to be more general with scientists trying to identify a few causal factors that impact a wide class of conditions or events. For example, when dealing with the problem of how people choose a job, idiographic explanation would be to list all possible reasons why a given person (or group) chooses a given job, while nomothetic explanation would try to find factors that determine why job applicants in general choose a given job.
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Types of Inquiry
Social research can be deductive or inductive. The inductive inquiry (also known as grounded research) is a model in which general principles (theories) are developed from specific observations. In deductive inquiry specific expectations of hypothesis are developed on the basis of general principles (i.e. social scientists start from an existing theory, and then search for proof). For example, in inductive research, if a scientist finds that some specific religious minorities tend to favour a specific political view, he may then extrapolate this to the hypothesis that all religious minorities tend to have the same political view. In deductive research, a scientist would start from a hypothesis that religious affiliation influenced political views and then begin observations to prove his theory.
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Quantitative/Qualitative Debate
There is usually a trade off between the number of cases and the number of their variables that social research can study. Qualitative research usually involves few cases with many variables, while quantitative involves many phenomena with few variables.
There is some debate over whether "quantitative research" and "qualitative research" methods can be complementary: some researchers argue that combining the two approaches is beneficial and helps build a more complete picture of the social world, while other researchers believe that the epistemologies that underpin each of the approaches are so divergent that they cannot be reconciled within a research project.
While quantitative methods are based on a natural science, positivist model of testing theory, qualitative methods are based on interpretivism and are more focused around generating theories and accounts. Positivists treat the social world as something that is 'out there', external to the social scientist and waiting to be researched. Interpretivists, on the other hand believe that the social world is constructed by social agency and therefore any intervention by a researcher will affect social reality. Herein lies the supposed conflict between quantitative and qualitative approaches - quantitative approaches traditionally seek to minimise intervention in order to produce valid and reliable statistics, whereas qualitative approaches traditionally treat intervention as something that is necessary (often arguing that participation can lead to a better understanding of a social situation).
However, it is increasingly recognised that the significance of these differences should not be exaggerated and that quantitative and qualitative approaches can be complementary. They can be combined in a number of ways, for example:
Qualitative methods can be used in order to develop quantitative research tools. For example, focus groups could be used to explore an issue with a small number of people and the data gathered using this method could then be used to develop a quantitative survey questionnaire that could be administered to a far greater number of people allowing results to be generalised. Qualitative methods can be used to explore and facilitate the interpretation of relationships between variables. For example researchers may inductively hypothesize that there would be a positive relationship between positive attitudes of sales staff and the amount of sales of a store. However, quantitative, deductive, structured observation of 576 convenience stores could reveal that this was not the case, and in order to understand why the relationship between the variables was negative the researchers may undertake qualitative case studies of four stores including participant observation. This might abductively confirm that the relationship was negative, but that it was not the positive attitude of sales staff that led to low sales, but rather that high sales led to busy staff who were less likely to be express positive emotions at work!Quantitative methods are useful for describing social phenomena, especially on a larger scale. Qualitative methods allow social scientists to provide richer explanations (and descriptions) of social phenomena, frequently on a smaller scale. By using two or more approaches researchers may be able to 'triangulate' their findings and provide a more valid representation of the social world.
A combination of different methods are often used within "comparative research", which involves the study of social processes across nation-states, or across different types of society.
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Paradigms
Social scientists usually follow one or more of the several specific sociological paradigms (points of view):
- conflict paradigm focuses on the ability of some groups to dominate others, or resistance to such domination.
- ethnomethodology paradigm examines how people make sense out of social life in the process of living it, as if each was a researcher engaged in enquiry.
- feminist paradigm focuses on how male dominance of society has shaped social life.
- Darwinism paradigm sees a progressive evolution in social life.
- positivism paradigm was an early 19th century approach, now considered obsolete in its pure form. Positivists believed we can scientifically discover all the rules governing social life.
- structural functionalism paradigm also known as a social systems paradigm addresses what functions various elements of the social system perform in regard to the entire system.
- symbolic interactionism paradigm examines how shared meanings and social patterns are developed in the course of social interactions.
Of these, the conflict paradigm of Karl Marx, symbolic interactionism of Max Weber and structural functionalism of Emile Durkheim are the most well known.
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The Ethics of Social Research
Two main assumptions of the ethics in social research are:
- voluntary participation
- no harm to subjects
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History of Sociology: Longer Explaionation
Sociology is a relatively new academic discipline among other social sciences including economics, political science, anthropology, and psychology. The ideas behind it, however, have a long history and can trace their origins to a mixture of common human knowledge, works of art and philosophy.
Precursors and foundations
Sociological reasoning can be traced back to Ancient Greece (cf. Xenophanes' remark. "If horses would adore gods, these gods would resemble horses."). Ibn Khaldoun, a 14th century historian, in his Muqaddimah, the introduction to a seven volume analysis of universal history, arguably advanced social philosophy in formulating theories of "social cohesion" and "social conflict." (See Early Muslim sociology.)
Sociology as a scientific discipline emerged in the early 19th century as an academic response to the challenge of modernity: as the world is becoming smaller and more integrated, people's experience of the world is increasingly atomized and dispersed. Sociologists hoped not only to understand what held social groups together, but also to develop an "antidote" to social disintegration and exploitation.
The term was coined by Auguste Comte in 1838 from Latin socius (companion, associate) and Greek logia (study of, speech). Comte hoped to unify all studies of humankind--including history, psychology and economics. His own sociological scheme was typical of the 19th century; he believed all human life had passed through the same distinct historical stages and that, if one could grasp this progress, one could prescribe the remedies for social ills.
"Classical" theorists of sociology from the late 19th and early 20th centuries include Karl Marx, Ferdinand Tönnies, Émile Durkheim, Vilfredo Pareto, and Max Weber. Like Comte, these figures did not consider themselves only "sociologists". Their works addressed religion, education, economics, law, psychology, ethics, philosophy, and theology, and their theories have been applied in a variety of academic disciplines. Their influence on sociology was foundational.
Early works
The first books with the term 'sociology' in the title were A Treatise on Sociology, Theoretical and Practical by the North-American lawer Henry Hughes and Sociology for the South, or the Failure of Free Society by the North-American lawyer George Fitzhugh. Both books were published in 1854, in the context of the debate over slavery in the antebellum US. The Study of Sociology by the English philosopher Herbert Spencer appeared in 1874. Lester Frank Ward, described by some as the father of American sociology, published Dynamic Sociology in 1883.
Institutionalizing Sociology
The discipline was taught by its own name for the first time at the University of Kansas, Lawrence in 1890 by Frank Blackmar, under the course title Elements of Sociology (the oldest continuing sociology course in America). The Department of History and Sociology at the University of Kansas was established in 1891, and the first full fledged independent university department of sociology was established in 1892 at the University of Chicago by Albion W. Small, who in 1895 founded the American Journal of Sociology.
The first European department of sociology was founded in 1895 at the University of Bordeaux by Émile Durkheim, founder of L'Année Sociologique (1896). In 1919 a sociology department was established in Germany at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich by Max Weber and in 1920 in Poland by Florian Znaniecki. The first sociology departments in the United Kingdom were founded after the Second World War.
International cooperation in sociology began in 1893 when Rene Worms founded the small Institut International de Sociologie, eclipsed by much larger International Sociological Association from 1949. In 1905 the American Sociological Association, the world's largest association of professional sociologists, was founded, and Lester F. Ward was selected to serve as the first President of the new society.
Positivism and anti-positivism
Early theorists' approach to sociology, led by Comte, was to treat it in much the same manner as natural science, applying the same methods and methodology used in the natural sciences to study social phenomena. The emphasis on empiricism and the scientific method sought to provide an incontestable foundation for any sociological claims or findings, and to distinguish sociology from less empirical fields such as philosophy. This methodological approach, called positivism, became a source of contention between sociologists and other scientists, and eventually a point of divergence within the field itself.
While most sciences evolved from deterministic, Newtonian models to probabilistic models which accept and even incorporate uncertainty, sociology began to cleave into those who believed in a deterministic approach (attributing variation to structure, interactions, or other forces) and those who rejected the very possibility of explanation and prediction. One push away from positivism was philosophical and political, such as in the dialectical materialism based on Marx's theories.
A second push away from scientific positivism was cultural, even sociological. As early as the 19th century, positivist and naturalist approaches to studying social life were questioned by scientists like Wilhelm Dilthey and Heinrich Rickert, who argued that the natural world differs from the social world because of unique aspects of human society such as meanings, symbols, rules, norms, and values. These elements of society inform human cultures. This view was further developed by Max Weber, who introduced antipositivism (humanistic sociology). According to this view, which is closely related to antinaturalism, sociological research must concentrate on humans' cultural values (see also: French pragmatism. This has led to some controversy on how one can draw the line between subjective and objective research and has also influenced hermeneutical studies. Similar disputes, especially in the era of the Internet, have led to variations in sociology such as public sociology, which emphasizes the usefulness of sociological expertise to abstracted audiences.
Twentieth century developments
During the interwar period sociology continued to expand in United States, but made much less progress in Europe, where it was attacked both by increasingly totalitarian governments and rejected by conservative universities. Meanwhile, in United States, the focus of sociology changed from macrosociology interested in evolution of societies towards microsociology, eventually resulting in the development of the structural-functional theory by Talcott Parsons in the 1930s.
Since World War II sociology has been revived in Europe, although during the Stalin and Mao eras it was suppressed in the communist countries. In the second half of the 20th century, sociology has been increasingly employed as a tool by governments and businesses. Sociologists made efforts to integrate macro- and microsociology and developed new types of quantitative research and qualitative research methods.
In the late 20th century, some sociologists embraced postmodern and poststructural philosophy. Others began to debate the nature of globalization. These developments have led to the reconceptualization of basic sociological categories and theories. For instance, inspired by the thought of Michel Foucault, power may be studied as dispersed throughout society in a wide variety disciplinary cultural practices. In political sociology, the power of the nation state may be seen as transforming due to the globalization of trade (and cultural exchanges) and the expanding influence of international organizations (Nash 2000:1-4).
Throughout the development of sociology, controversies have raged about how to emphasize or integrate concerns with subjectivity, objectivity, intersubjectivity and practicality in theory and research. One outcome of such disputes has been the formation of multidimensional theories of society, such as critical theory. Another outcome has been the formation of public sociology, which emphasizes the usefulness of sociological analysis to various social groups.
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HIstory of Sociology
Max Weber was a strong influence in the history of sociology. Ibn Khaldun is regarded as the founder of modern sociology. As a scientific discipline, sociology emerged in the early 19th century as the academic response to the modernization of the world. Among many early sociologists (e.g., Émile Durkheim), the aim of sociology was in structuralism, understanding the cohesion of social groups, and developing an "antidote" to social disintegration. Max Weber was concerned with the modernization of society through the concept of rationalization, which he believed would trap individuals in an "iron cage" of rational thought. Some sociologists, including Georg Simmel and W. E. B. Du Bois, utilized more microsociological, qualitative analyses. This microlevel approach played an important role in American sociology, with the theories of George Herbert Mead and his student Herbert Blumer resulting in the creation of the symbolic interactionism approach to sociology.
American sociology in the 1940s and 1950s was dominated largely by Talcott Parsons, who argued that aspects of society that promoted structural integration were therefore "functional". This structural functionalism approach was questioned in the 1960s, when sociologists came to see this approach as merely a justification for inequalities present in the status quo. In reaction, conflict theory was developed, which was based in part on the philosophies of Karl Marx. Conflict theorists saw society as an arena in which different groups compete for control over resources. Symbolic interactionism also came to be regarded as central to sociological thinking. Erving Goffman saw social interactions as a stage performance, with individuals preparing "backstage" and attempting to control their audience through impression management. While these theories are currently prominent in sociological thought, other approaches exist, including feminist theory, post-structuralism, rational choice theory, and postmodernism.
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