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social theory - events| 1366 | Italy | Italian writer Francesco Petrarch (Petrarca) completes his Latin treatise De remediis utriusque fortunae/Remedies Against Fortune. | | 1528 | Italy | Italian writer Baldassare Castiglione publishes Il libro del cortegiano/The Book of the Courtier. Setting out the accomplishments of the ideal Renaissance courtier, it has a profound effect on manners throughout Europe. An English translation, by Thomas Moby, is published in 1561. | | 1814 | France, Europe | The French social thinker Claude-Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, publishes De la Réorganisation de la société européenne/On the Reorganization of European Society. | | 1840 | France | The French socialist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon publishes Qu'est-ce-que La Propriété?/What is Property? It contains the famous proposition: ‘Property is theft.’ | | 1895 | France | French sociologist Emile Durkheim publishes Les Règles de la méthode sociologique/The Rules of the Sociological Method, in which he formulates the scientific methodology of sociology and establishes it as a discipline. | | 1903 | | US writer and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman publishes The Home: Its Work and Influence. | | 1945 | Austria, UK | The Austrian-born British philosopher Karl Popper publishes The Open Society and its Enemies. | | 1948 | UK, USA | The US-born British writer T S Eliot publishes his critical study Notes Towards the Definition of Culture. | | 1963 | England | The English political philosopher John Plamenatz publishes Man and Society: A Critical Examination of Some Important Social and Political Theories from Machiavelli to Marx. | | 1976 | USA | US cultural historian Shere Hite publishes The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality. | | 1981 | Germany | German social scientist Jürgen Habermas publishes Theorie des kommunikatives Handelns/The Theory of Communicative Action. |
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