1940s (sociology)
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[edit] 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.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 1942
- William Beveridge's Social Insurance and Allied Services 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.
- 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.
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- Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness is published.
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- 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' England in the Eighteen Eighties: Toward a Social Basis for Freedom is published.
- Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy is published.
- Karl Polanyi' The Great Transformation is published.
- Rupert B. Vance serves as president of the ASA.
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- July 19: Karin Knorr Cetina
- Donna Haraway
- Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski
- Ulrich Beck
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 1946
- Morris Janowitz's The Professional Soldier is published.
- Viola Klein's The Feminine Character: History of an Ideology 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.
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- 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.
[edit] 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.
- E. Franklin Frazier serves as president of the ASA.
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[edit] 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.
