1990s in sociology

1990

• 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 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 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》 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 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

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 is published.
• Michel Maffesoli's The Contemplation of the World : 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 Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Process is published.
• Niklas Luhmann's Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft 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