Timeline of sociology

Key themes

• Society
• Globalization
• Human behavior
• Human environmental impact
• Identity
• Industrial revolutions 3 / 4 / 5
• Social complexity
• Social construct
• Social environment
• Social equality
• Social equity
• Social power
• Social stratification
• Social structure

Perspectives

• Conflict theory
• Critical theory
• Structural functionalism
• Positivism
• Social constructionism
• Symbolic interactionism

• Aging
• Architecture
• Art
• Astrosociology
• Body
• Criminology
• Consciousness
• Culture
• Death
• Demography
• Deviance
• Disaster
• Economic
• Education
• Emotion (Jealousy)
• Environmental
• Family
• Feminist
• Fiscal
• Food
• Gender
• Generations
• Health
• Historical
• Immigration
• Industrial
• Internet
• Jewry
• Knowledge
• Language
• Law
• Leisure
• Literature
• Marxist
• Mathematic
• Medical
• Military
• Music
• Peace, war, and social conflict
• Philosophy
• Political
• Public
• Punishment
• Race and ethnicity
• Religion
• Rural
• Science (History of science)
• Social movements
• Social psychology
• Sociocybernetics
• Sociology
• Space
• Sport
• Technology
• Terrorism
• Urban
• Utopian
• Victimology
• Visual

• Quantitative
• Qualitative
• Comparative
• Computational
• Ethnographic
• Conversation analysis
• Historical
• Interview
• Mathematical
• Network analysis
• Social experiment
• Survey

• 1700s: Comte · Sieyès
  

1800s: Martineau · Tocqueville · Marx · Spencer · Le Bon · Pareto · Tönnies · Veblen · Simmel · Durkheim · Addams · Mead · Weber · Du Bois · Mannheim · Elias

1900s: Fromm · Adorno · Gehlen · Aron · Merton · Nisbet · Mills · Bell · Schoeck · Goffman · Bauman · Foucault · Luhmann · Habermas · Baudrillard · Bourdieu · Giddens

• Bibliography
• Terminology
• Journals
• Organizations
• People
• Timeline
• By country