1990s in sociology

• Aung San Suu Kyi's Burma and India: Some aspects of intellectual life under colonialism is published. • Zygmunt Bauman's Thinking Sociologically is published. • Raymond Boudon's The Art of Self-Persuasion: The Social Explanation of False Beliefs is published. • James Coleman's Foundations of Social Theory is published. • Troy Duster's Backdoor To Eugenics is published. • Ian Hacking's The Taming of Chance is published. • Nicole Lapierre's The Silence of the Memory is published and wins the Bulzoni Editore Special Award. • 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. • Chen Liangjin's Social Developmental Mechanisms and Social Security Functions is published. • Alejandro Portes' and Rubén Rumbaut's Immigrant America: A Portrait is published. • John B. Thompson's Ideology and Modern Culture: Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communications is published. • Paul Willis's Common culture: symbolic work at play in the everyday cultures of the young is published. • William Julius Wilson serves as the president of the ASA. • Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women is published. Deaths • February 17: Hans Speier • August 1: Norbert Elias • October 22: Louis Althusser ==1991==

• Cornelius Castoriadis' Philosophy, Politics and Autonomy is published. • 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. • Clive Emsley's English police: a political and social history is published. • Ron Eyerman's and Andrew Jamison's Social movements: a cognitive approach is published. • Mike Featherstone's, Mike Hepworth's and Bryan Turner's The body: social process and cultural theory is published. • Ann Game's Undoing the Social: Towards a deconstructive sociology is published. • Steven Goldberg's When Wish Replaces Thought: Why So Much of What You Believe Is False is published. • Anthony Giddens' Modernity and Self Identity is published. • Donna Haraway's A Cyborg Manifesto is published. • Nicos Panayiotou Mouzelis's Back to Sociological Theory: The Construction of Social Orders is published. • Philippe Sarasin's Die Stadt der Bürger is published and wins the Bulzoni Editore Special Award. • Immanuel Wallerstein's Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of Nineteenth Century Paradigms • Stanley Lieberson serves as president of the ASA. Deaths • June 28/June 29: Henri Lefebvre • August 21: Oswald von Nell-Breuning ==1992==

• Pierre Bourdieu's and Loïc Wacquant's An invitation to Reflexive Sociology is published. • Fei Xiaotong's Xingxing chong xingxing: Xiangzhen Fazhan Lunshu 《行行重行行》 (Travel, travel, and more travel: On Rural Development) is published. • Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt's Jewish civilization: the Jewish historical experience in a comparative perspective is published. • Harvie Ferguson's Religious transformation in Western society: The End of Happiness is published. • Stuart Hall's, David Held's and Tony Mcgrew's Modernity and its Futures is published. • David Lockwood's Solidarity and schism: the problem of disorder in Durkheimian and Marxist sociology is published. • Niklas Luhmann's Observations of modern trends is published. • Sal Restivo's Mathematics in Society and History is published. • Chris Shilling's The Body and Social Theory is published. • Richard Skellington's and Paulette Morris's (eds.) Race in Britain Today is published. • Alain Touraine's Critique of Modernity is published. • Carlo Triglia's Sviluppo senza autonomia: effetti perversi delle politiche nel Mezzogiorno is published. • James Coleman serves as president of the American Sociological Association (ASA) Deaths • December 9: Thomas Bottomore ==1993==

• Steven Goldberg's Why Men Rule is published. • Jean-François Lyotard's Toward The Postmodern is published. • Michael Mann's The Sources of Social Power (Volume 2) is published. • Michel Maffesoli's The Contemplation of the World (La Contemplation du monde): figures of community style is published. • 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. • George Ritzer's The McDonaldization of Society is published. • Renato Rosaldo's Culture and Truth is published. • Charles Tilly's European Revolutions, 1492–1992 is published and wins the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences the next year. • Cornel West's Race Matters is published. ==1994==

• Nigel Dodd's The Sociology of Money is published. • Anthony Giddens' Beyond Left and Right is published. • Deborah Lupton's Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body in Western Societies is published. • Angela McRobbie's Postmodernism and popular culture is published. • Ralph Miliband's Socialism for a Sceptical Age is published. • Charles Murray's The Bell Curve is published. • Viviana Zelizer's The Social Meaning of Money is published. Deaths • February 14 – Christopher Lasch ==1995==

• Ulrich Beck's Ecological Politics in the Age of Risk is published. • Walden Bello founded Focus on the Global South in Bangkok, Thailand. • Raymond Boudon's Le Juste et le vrai is published. • Colin Crouch's Reinventing collective action: from the global to the local is published. • François Furet's The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century is published. • Ian Hacking's Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory is published. • David Hollinger's Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalisms is published. • Christopher Lasch's The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy is published. • Sarah Nettleton's Sociology of Health and Illness is published. • Charles Tilly's Popular contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834 is published. • John B. Thompson's The Media and Modernity: A social Theory of the Media is published. • Ken Morrison's Marx, Durkheim, Weber: Formations of Modern Social Thought is published. Deaths • November 4: Gilles Deleuze ==1996==

• Les Back's New Ethnicities and Urban culture is published. • Tim Dant's Fetishism and the social value of objects is published. • Stuart Hall's and Paul Du Gay's Questions of cultural identity is published. • Stevi Jackson's and Sue Scott's Feminism and Sexuality is published. • Richard Jenkins' Social Identity is published. • David Lee's and Bryan Turner's Conflicts about Class: Debating Inequality in Late Industrialism is published. • Serge Latouche's The Westernisation of the World is published. • Andrew W. Metcalfe's and Ann Game's Passionate Sociology is published. • Michel Maffesoli's The Time of the Tribes: The Decline of Individualism in Mass Society is published in English translation. • Anna Pollert's ''Gender and Class Revisited; or, the Poverty of 'Patriarchy''' is published. • Cyril Smith's Marx at the millennium is published. • John Solomos' and Les Back's Racism and Society is published. • Mobilization: The International Quarterly Review of Social Movement Research is first published by Hank Johnston. ==1997==

• Jean Baudrillard's A Conjuration of Imbeciles is published. • Ulrich Beck's The Reinvention of Politics is published. • Michael Bury's Health and Illness in a changing society is published. • Stuart Hall's (ed.) Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Process is published. • 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. • Beverley Skeggs's Formations of Class and Gender: Becoming Respectable is published. • Sylvia Walby's Gender Transformations is published. • Katherine Woodward's Identity and Difference is published. • Slavoj Žižek's Multi-culturalism or The Cultural Logic of Multi-national Capitalism is published. • Neil Smelser serves as president of the ASA. • Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is published. • Nathan Glazer's We Are All Multiculturalists Now is published. ==1998==

• Ulrich Beck's World Risk Society is published. • Manuel Castells published the final volume of his The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture trilogy • Anthony Giddens' The Third Way is published. • Ian Hacking's Mad Travellers is published. • Ron Eyerman's and Andrew Jamison's Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century is published. • Serge Latouche's ''L'Autre Afrique: Entre don et marché'' is published. • Richard Sennett's The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism is published. • Pierre Bourdieu's La Domination masculine is published. • Gordon Marshall's and John Scott's A Dictionary of Sociology is published. Deaths • November 6: Niklas Luhmann ==1999==

• David Byrne's Social Exclusion is published. • Colin Crouch's Social Change in Western Europe is published. • Máirtín Mac an Ghaill's Contemporary Racisms and Ethnicities: Social and Cultural Transformations is published. • Germaine Greer's The Whole Woman is published. • Ian Hacking's The Social Construction of What? is published. • Charles Murray's The Underclass Revisited is published • Susan Moller Okin's Is Multiculturalism Bad For Women? is published. • Anne Phillips' Which equalities matter? is published. • Alejandro Portes serves as president of the American Sociological Association • Alain Touraine's Comment sortir du libéralisme is published. • Zygmunt Bauman's Liquid Modernity is published. • The Polish Sociological Review published Institutionalization of Sociology ==References==