1940s in sociology

The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1940s.

1940

*Marc Bloch's "Feudal Society" is published.
*Marc Bloch's "Strange Defeat; a Statement of Evidence" is published.
*Franz Boas's "Race, Language and Culture" is published.
*Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard's "The Neur" is published.
*Meyer Fortes's "African Political Systems" is published.
*David V. Glass's "Population Policies and Movements in Europe" is published.
*Walter Benjamin's "On the concept of history" is published.
*Robert M. MacIver serves as president of the ASA.

Births

*Claus Offe
*George Ritzer

Deaths

*September 27: Walter Benjamin

1941

*Melville Jean Herskovits' "The Myth of the Negro Past" is published.
*George Homans' "English villages in the Thirteenth Century" 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 "Social and Cultural Dynamics" is published.
*William Lloyd Warner's "Social Life of a Modern Community" is published.

1942

*William Beveridge's "Social Insurance and Allied Services" is published.
*James Burnham's "The Managerial revolution" is published
*Stuart C. Dodd's "Dimensions of Society" is published.
*Georges Gurvitch's "Sociology of Law" is published.
*Siegfried Frederick Nadel's "A Black Byzantium" is published.
*Franz Leopold Neumann's "" 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 and a Free Society" is published.
*W. E. B. Du Bois' "Jacob and Esau" is published.
*Morris Ginsberg's "Moral Progress" is published.
*Friedrich Hayek' "The Road to Serfdom" is published.
*Clyde Kluckhohn' "Navajo Witchcraft" is published.
*Alfred Louis Kroeber' "Configurations of Cultural Growth" is published.
*Paul Felix Lazarsfeld' "The People's Choice" is published.
*Helen Merrell Lynd' "" is published.
*Gunnar Myrdal's "" is published.
*Karl Polanyi' "The Great Transformation" is published.
*Rupert B. Vance 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' "Field Work in College Education" is published.
*Maurice Merleau-Ponty' "The Phenomenology of Perception" is published.
*Sir Karl Raimund Popper' "The Open Society and its Enemies" is published.

1946

*Morris Janowitz's "The Professional Soldier" is published.
*C. Wright Mills and Hans.H Gerth's "From Max Weber" 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 Leopold Von Weise becomes chairperson.

Births

*April 12: Richard Machalek
*September 7: Francisco Varela

1947

*Theodor Adorno's "The Stars down to Earth" is published.
*Theodor Adorno's and Max Horkheimer's "Dialectic of Entertainment" is published.
*Max Horkheimer's "The Eclipse of Reason" is published.
*George Lundberg's "Can Science Save Us?" is published.
*George Elton Mayo's "The Social Problems of Industrial Civilization" is published.
*Thomas Humphrey Marshall's "Sociology at the Crossroads" is published.
*Robert Morrison MacIver's "The Web of Government" is published.

1948

*Chester Barnard's "Organisation and Management" is published.
*Oliver Cox's "Caste, Class and Race" is published.
*Kingsley Davis' "Human Society" is published.
*Alfred Kinsey' "Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male" is published.
*Robert Lowie' "Social Organisation" 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' "The Web of Kinship among the Tallensi" is published.
*E. Franklin Frazier's "The Negro in the United States" is published.
*Robert K. Merton's "Social Theory and Social Structure" is published.
*Max Weber's "General Economic History" is published (posthumously).
*International Sociological Association is founded.