1940s in sociology
The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1940s.
1940[]
- Marc Bloch's Feudal Society is published.
- Marc Bloch's is published.
- Franz Boas's is published.
- Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard's The Nuer is published.
- Meyer Fortes's African Political Systems is published.
- 's is published.
- Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History is published.
- Robert M. MacIver serves as president of the ASA.
Births[]
Deaths[]
- September 27: Walter Benjamin
1941[]
- Melville Jean Herskovits' The Myth of the Negro Past is published.
- George Homans' is published.
- Harold Lasswell's The Garrison State is published.
- Herbert Marcuse's Reason and Revolution is published.
- Karl Marx's Grundrisse is published.
- Pitirim Sorokin's is published.
- William Lloyd Warner's is published.
1942[]
- William Beveridge's Social Insurance and Allied Services is published.
- James Burnham's is published
- Stuart C. Dodd's is published.
- Georges Gurvitch's Sociology of Law is published.
- Siegfried Frederick Nadel's is published.
- Franz Leopold Neumann's Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism is published.
- Wilhelm Reich's The Mass Psychology of Fascism is published.
- Joseph Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy is published.
- Dwight Sanderson serves as president of the American Sociological Association.
Births[]
- Michael Mann
- February 9: Manuel Castells
Deaths[]
- May 16: Bronislaw Malinowski
- December 22: Franz Boas
1943[]
- Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness is published.
1944[]
- William Beveridge's Full Employment in a Free Society is published.
- W. E. B. Du Bois' Jacob and Esau is published.
- Morris Ginsberg's is published.
- Friedrich Hayek' The Road to Serfdom is published.
- Clyde Kluckhohn' is published.
- Alfred Louis Kroeber' is published.
- Paul Felix Lazarsfeld' The People's Choice is published.
- Helen Merrell Lynd' is published.
- Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy is published.
- Karl Polanyi' The Great Transformation is published.
- serves as president of the ASA.
Births[]
- July 19: Karin Knorr Cetina
- Donna Haraway
- Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski
- Ulrich Beck
Deaths[]
- February 7: Robert E. Park
1945[]
- Ruth Fulton Benedict' The Chrysanthemum and the Sword is published.
- Helen Merrell Lynd' is published.
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty' Phenomenology of Perception is published.
- Sir Karl Raimund Popper' The Open Society and its Enemies is published.
1946[]
- Morris Janowitz's is published.
- C. Wright Mills and 's is published.
- Viola Klein's is published.
- Carl C. Taylor serves as president of the American Sociological Association.
- Activities of the German Society for Sociology are resumed and becomes chairperson.
Births[]
- April 12: Richard Machalek
- September 7: Francisco Varela
1947[]
- Theodor Adorno's is published.
- Theodor Adorno's and Max Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment is published.
- Fei Xiaotong's (The institutions for reproduction) is published.
- Max Horkheimer's is published.
- George Lundberg's is published.
- George Elton Mayo's is published.
- Thomas Humphrey Marshall's is published.
- Robert Morrison MacIver's is published.
1948[]
- Chester Barnard's is published.
- Oliver Cox's is published.
- Kingsley Davis' is published.
- Fei Xiaotong's (Rural recovery) is published.
- Alfred Kinsey' Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male is published.
- Robert Lowie' is published.
- C. Wright Mills' is published.
- E. Franklin Frazier serves as president of the ASA.
Births[]
- January 9: Claude S. Fischer
Deaths[]
- September 17: Ruth Benedict
1949[]
- Marc Bloch's The Historian's Craft is published.
- Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex is published.
- Meyer Fortes' is published.
- E. Franklin Frazier's is published.
- Robert K. Merton's Social Theory and Social Structure is published.
- Max Weber's is published (posthumously).
- International Sociological Association is founded.
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