1950s in Sociology - 1956

1956

• Vere Gordon Childe's Man Makes Himself is published.
• Viola Klein's and Alva Myrdal's Women's Two Roles: Home and Work is published.
• David Lockwood's Some Remarks on "The Social System" is published.
• Charles Wright Mills's The Power Elite is published.
• Pitirim Sorokin's Fads and Foibles in Modern Sociology and Related Sciences is published.
• Otto Stammer's Functions in the Party Unit is published.
• Asher Tropp's School teachers : the growth of the teaching profession in England and Wales from 1800 to the present day is published.
• Max Weber's The Soteriology of the Underprivileged is published.
• November 4 - The use of force by the Soviet union to destroy the Hungarian Uprising turns many doctrinal Marxists away from the Marxist-Leninist model.