1950s in sociology

The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1950s.

1950[]

• Theodor Adorno's The Authoritarian Personality is published.
• George Homans's is published.
• Thomas Humphrey Marshall's .
• Richard Titmuss' is published.
• British Journal of Sociology launched.
• Sociology viewed as a Social Philosophy at the University of Santo Tomas is initiated by Fr. Valentin Marin with Criminology, followed by A.W. Salt and Murray Bartlett at University of the Philippines and by Clyde Helfin at .

1951[]

• Theodor Adorno's Minima Moralia is published.
• Maurice Duverger's Political Parties is published.
• Theodor Geiger's is published.
• Rosa Luxemburg's The Accumulation of Capital is published.
• C. Wright Mills' White Collar: The American Middle Classes is published.
• Talcott Parsons' is published.
• Robert C. Angell serves as president of the ASA.
• Society for the Study of Social Problems is founded.
• British Sociological Association is founded by Morris Ginsberg and others

1952[]

• Sociology is banned by communist authorities in China and is labeled as a bourgeois pseudoscience.
• Hans Jurgen Eysenck's is published.
• Melville J. Herskovits's is published.
• Robert E. Park's is published.
• Talcott Parsons' and Edward Shils' is published.
• is founded as a non-stock, non-profit professional association that is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
• Alfred Radcliffe-Brown's is published.
• Dorothy Swaine Thomas' is published.
• Dorothy Swaine Thomas serves as the first woman president of the American Sociological Association.

1953[]

• Morris Ginsberg's is published.
• Morris Ginsberg's is published.
• Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female is published.
• C. Wright Mills' is published.
• Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is published.
• Max Weber's The Sociology of Religion is published.
• Samuel A. Stouffer serves as president of the ASA.

1954[]

• Lewis Coser's is published.
• Hans Jurgen Eysenck's is published.
• David Glass' is published.
• David Glass' is published.
• Alvin Ward Gouldner's is published.
• Edmund Leach's is published.
• C. Wright Mills' is published.
• Siegfried Frederick Nadel's is published.
• Talcott Parsons' is published.
• Florian Znaniecki serves as president of the American Sociological Association.
• Thomas Humphrey Marshall becomes Chair of Sociology at the LSE

1955[]

• Theodor Adorno's is published.
• Gordon Allport's Becoming is published.
• Milovan Djilas' The New Class is published.
• Lucien Goldmann's is published.
• Louis Hartz's The Liberal Tradition in America
• George Alexander Kelly's The Psychology of Personal Constructs is published.
• Paul Lazarsfeld's is published.
• Herbert Marcuse's Eros and Civilization is published.
• Joan Woodward's is published.
• Barbara Wootton's is published.
• retires as chairperson of the German Society for Sociology and is succeeded by Helmuth Plessner.

1956[]

• Vere Gordon Childe's is published.
• Viola Klein's and Alva Myrdal's is published.
• David Lockwood's is published.
• Charles Wright Mills's The Power Elite is published.
• Pitirim Sorokin's is published.
• 's is published.
• 's is published.
• Max Weber's 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.

1957[]

• Hans Jurgen Eysenck's is published.
• Edward Franklin Frazier's is published.
• 's is published.
• Stanislaw Ossowski's is published.
• Karl Polanyi's is published.
• Karl Popper's The Poverty of Historicism is published.
• Alfred Radcliffe-Brown's is published.
• Jean-Paul Sartre's The Problem of Method is published.
• Victor Turner's 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.

1958[]

• Simone de Beauvoir's is published.
• Georges Gurvitch's is published.
• Fritz Heider's is published.
• David Lockwood's is published.
• Helen Merrell Lynd's is published.
• C. Wright Mills's is published.
• Gunnar Myrdal's is published.
• Irene B. Taeuber's is published.
• Richard Titmuss' is published.
• Michael Young's is published.
• The is established in London, Maurice Freedman becomes the first editor.

1959[]

• Oliver Cox's is published.
• Ralf Dahrendorf's is published.
• Ernest Gellner's Words and Things is published.
• Erving Goffman's is published.
• Morris Janowitz's is published.
• Oscar Lewis' is published.
• C. Wright Mills's The Sociological Imagination is published.
• 's is published.
• Karl Popper's The Logic of Scientific Discovery is published.
• Barbara Wootton's is published.
• Kingsley Davis serves as president of ASA.
• Barbara Wootton becomes president of the British Sociological Association.
• Helmuth Plessner retires as chairperson of the German Society for Sociology and is succeeded by Theodor Adorno

Deaths[]

• April 27: William F. Ogburn
• May 20: Alfred Schütz

See also[]

• Interpretations of Weber's liberalism
• Social Problems (journal)