1600

1651

Thomas HOBBES:Leviathan

1670

SPINOZA: A Theologico-Political Treatise

1677

SPINOZA: Ethics

1690

John LOCKE: Essay Concerning Human Understanding

1690

John LOCKE: Second Treatise on Government

1700

1734

MONTESQUIEU: Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their decline

1740

HUME: Treatise on Human Nature

1748

MONTESQUIEU: Spirit of Laws

1751

HUME: Enquiry Concering the Principles of Morals

1762

ROUSSEAU: The Social Contract

1764

BECCARIA: Of Crimes and Punishments

1776

PAINE: Common Sense

1780

BENTHAM: The Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

1781

KANT: Critique of Pure Reason

1782-89

ROUSSEAU: Confessions

1786

WOLLSTONECRAFT: Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (pamphlet)

1790

First United States census began

1792

PAINE: The Rights of Man

1792

WOLLSTONECRAFT: Vindication of the Rights of Women

1795

PAINE: The Age of Reason

1798

MALTHUS: Essay on the Principle of Population

1800

1818

SCHOPENHAUER: The World as Will and Idea

1821

HEGEL: The Philosophy of Right

1830-42

COMTE: The Positive Philosophy (6 vols), 1830, 1835, 1838, 1839, 1841, 1842

1831

DARWIN: sails on the H.M.S. Beagle

1833-43

Young Hegelians flourish in Germany

1835-40

TOCQUEVILLE: Democracy in America

1837

HEGEL: The Philosophy of History

1837

MARTINEAU: Society in America

1841

CARLYLE: On Heroes

1842

MARX writes first article for Rheinische Zeitung

1843

J.S. MILL: System of Logic

1844-5

MARX: The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

1847

ENGELS: The Principles of Communism

1848

MARX: Communist Manifesto

1848

J.S. MILL: Principles of Political Economy

1850

SPENCER: Social Statics

1859

DARWIN: The Origin of Species

1859

J.S. MILL: On Liberty

1865

J.S. MILL: Auguste Comte and Positivism

1867-8

MARX: Capital (vol I)

1869

GALTON: Hereditary Genius

1871

DARWIN: The Descent of Man

1871

GALTON: A Statistical Enquiry into the Efficacy of Prayer

1873

SPENCER: Study of Sociology

1874

GALTON: English Men of Science

1876

LOMBROSO: L’Uomo Delinquente

1877

MARTINEAU: Autobiographical Memoir

1885

MARX: Capital, Vol. II

1887

TOENNIES: Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft

1889

ADDAMS founds Hull House settlement in Chicago

1889

Franz BOAS: The Aims of Ethnology

1891

Georg SIMMEL: On Social Differentiation

1892

SMALL: First Sociology Department (University of Chicago)

1893

DURKHEIM: On the Division of Labor in Society

1894

MARX: Capital, Vol III

1894

SMALL: first textbook in Sociology

1895

DURKHEIM: Rules of Sociological Method

1897

DURKHEIM: Suicide

1899

VEBLEN: Theory of the Leisure Class

1900

1900

DURKHEIM: Two Laws of Penal Evolution

1900

FREUD: The Interpretation of Dreams

1900

George SIMMEL: Philosophy of Money

1902

COOLEY: Human Nature and Social Order

1904

PARK: The Crowd and the Public

1904 Sep-Dec

WEBER visits United States (St. Louis Exposition)

1906

WEBER: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

1907

William JAMES: Pragmatism

1908

SIMMEL: Soziologie

1909

COOLEY: Social Organization

1913

MEAD: The Social Self

1913

GORING: The English Convict

1915

PARETO: General Treatise on Sociology

1918

COOLEY: Social Process

1918-21

THOMAS & ZNANIECKI: The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (5 vols)

1919

SOROKIN: System of Sociology (2 vols)

1919

John B. WATSON: Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist

1921

PARK: (w/ Burgess) An Introduction to the Science of Sociology

1921

WEBER: The City

1923

MEAD: "Scientific Method and the Moral Sciences"

1924

MEAD: "The Genesis of the Self and Social Control"

1927

John DEWEY: The Public and its Problems

1927

SOROKIN: Social Mobility

1947

SOROKIN: Society, Culture and Personality

1949

George ZIPF: Human behavior and the principle of least effort; an introduction to human ecology

1949

SUTHERLAND: White Collar Crime

1949

PARSONS: Essays in Sociological Theory, Pure and Applied

1950

PARK: Race and Culture

1955

COHEN: Delinquent Boys

1956

MILLS: The Power Elite

1959

MILLS: The Sociological Imagination

1963

BECKER: Outsiders

1964

MATZA: Delinquency and Drift

1964

SELLIN and WOLFGANG: Measuring Delinquency

1968

Robert K. MERTON: Social Theory and Social Structure

1969

HIRSCHI: Causes of Delinquency

1969

Herbert BLUMER: Symbolic Interactionism: Perspectives and Methods

1969

MATZA: Becoming Deviant

1975

TAYLOR, WALTON, AND YOUNG: Critical Criminology

1977

Michel FOUCAULT: Discipline and Punish

1988

KATZ: Seductions of Crime

1992

Mike DAVIS: City of Quartz

1994

HERRNSTEIN and MURRAY: The Bell Curve