1957
- Hans Jurgen Eysenck's Dynamics of Anxiety and Hysteria is published.
- Edward Franklin Frazier's Black Bourgeoisie is published.
- Terrence Morris's The Criminal Area: A study in Ecology is published.
- Stanislaw Ossowski's Class Structure in the Social Consciousness is published.
- Karl Polanyi's Trade and Markets in the Early Empires is published.
- Karl Popper's The Poverty of Historicism is published.
- Alfred Radcliffe-Brown's A Natural Science of Society is published.
- Jean-Paul Sartre's The Problem of Method is published.
- Victor Turner's Schism and Continuity in an African Society is published.
- Karl Wittfogel's Oriental Despotism: A comparative Study of Total Power is published.
- Michael Young's and Peter Willmott's Family and Kinship in East London
- Revised edition of Robert K. Merton's Social Theory and Social Structure is published.
- Robert K. Merton serves as president of the ASA.
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