2000s in sociology

2000

• Zygmunt Bauman's Liquid Modernity is published.
• Morris Berman's The Twilight of American Culture is published.
• Harriet Bradley's Social Inequalities: coming to terms with complexity is published.
• Anthony Giddens' Runaway World is published.
• Anthony Giddens' The Third Way and Its Critics is published.
• Stuart Hall's The Multicultural Question is published.
• Bhikhu Parekh's Report of the Commission of the Future of multi-Ethnic Britain is published.
• Robert D. Putnam's Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community is published.
• Diane Richardson's Rethinking Sexuality is published.
• John Solomos' and Les Back's Theories of Race and Racism; A Reader is published.
• Anthony Vidler' Warped Spaces is published.
• Malcolm Waters' Inequality after Class is published.
• Linda Woodhead's and Paul Heelas' Religion in Modern Times is published.

2001

• Jean Baudrillard's The Spirit of Terrorism is published.
• Raymond Boudon's Origin of values: sociology and philosophy of beliefs is published.
• Stan Cohen's States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering is published.
• Randy David's Reflections on Sociology and Philippine Society is published by the University of the Philippines Press.
• Jay Demerath's Crossing the Gods: World Religions and Worldly Politics is published.
• David Frisby's Cityscapes of Modernity: Critical Explorations is published.
• John B. Thompson's Political scandal : power and visibility in the media age is published.
• Douglas Massey serves as president of the ASA.

2002

• Gargi Bhattacharyya's Sexuality and Society is published.
• Grace Davie's Europe: The Exceptional Case is published.
• Clive Emsley's The History of Crime and Crime Control Institutions is published.
• Ian Hacking's Historical Ontology is published.
• Stevi Jackson and Sue Scott's Gender: A Sociological Reader is published.
• Mike Maguire's Crime Statistics: The Data Explosion and its Implications is published.
• David Nelken's White Collar Crime is published.
• Barbara F. Reskin serves as president of the ASA.

Deaths

• January 23 – Pierre Bourdieu
• August 9 – Peter Neville
• October 2 – Heinz von Foerster

2003

• Steve Bruce's Politics and Religion is published.
• Randy David's Nation, Self, and Citizenship: An Invitation to Philippine Sociology is published and wins the National Book Award.
• David Downes' and Paul Rock's Understanding deviance: a guide to the sociology of crime and rule breaking is published.
• Steven Goldberg's Fads and Fallacies in the Social Sciences is published.
• Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 is published.

Deaths

• October 3 – Neil Postman

2004

• Eamonn Carrabine's Criminology is published.
• Colin Crouch's Post-Democracy is published.
• Paul Gilroy's After Empire: melancholia or convival culture is published.
• David Goodhart's Discomfort of Strangers is published.
• George Ritzer's Globalisation or Nothing is published.
• Moisés Espírito Santo's Five thousand years of Culture at the West - Etno-History of the Popular Religion in the Region of Estremadura is published.

2005

• Colin Crouch's Capitalist diversity and change : recombinant governance and institutional entrepreneurs is published.
• Liu Xiaobo's The Future of Free China in our Life is published by Labor Reform Foundation.
• Michael Mann's The Dark Side of Democracy Explaining Ethnic Cleansing is published.
• John B. Thompson's Books in the digital age: the transformation of academic and higher education publishing in Britain and the United States is published.
• Viviana Zelizer's The Purchase of Intimacy is published.

Anniversaries

• The 50th birthday of Louis Hartz's The Liberal Tradition in America, first published in 1955.

Deaths

• April 23: Andre Gunder Frank

2006

• Morris Berman's Dark Ages America is published.
• Geoff Dencha's, Kate Gavron's and Michael Young's The new East End : kinship, race and conflict is published.
• Harvie Ferguson's Phenomenological sociology : insight and experience in modern society is published.
• Serge Latouche's How do we learn to want less?The globe downshifted is published.
• Richard Sennett's The Culture of the New Capitalism is published.
• William Outhwaite's The Future of Society is published.

2007

• R. Burrows, M. Savage's The Coming Crisis of Empirical Sociology is published.
• Frances Fox Piven serves as president of the ASA.

2008

• Arne L. Kalleberg serves as president of the ASA.

2009

• Patricia Hill Collins serves as the 100th president of the ASA.