1920s in sociology

The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1920s.

1920

 * Morris Ginsberg's The Psychology of Society is published.
 * Robert Lowie's primitive society is published.
 * György Lukács' The Theory of the Novel is published.
 * Walter Benjamin's Theological-Political Fragment is written.

1921

 * James Bryce's Modern Democracies is published.
 * Sigmund Freud's Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego is published.
 * Robert E. Park's and Ernest Burgess's The Science of Sociology is published.
 * Alfred Radcliffe-Brown's The Andaman Islanders is published.
 * R.H. Tawney's The Acquisitive Society is published.
 * Max Weber's The City is published.
 * Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is published.
 * Edward C. Hayes serves as president of the ASA.
 * National Council for the Social Studies is founded

1922

 * Lucien Lévy-Bruhl's Primitive Mentality is published.
 * Alexander Carr-Saunders' The Population Problem is published.
 * Franklin Giddings' Studies in the Theory of Human Society is published.
 * Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse's Elements of Social Justice is published.
 * Bronisław Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific is published.
 * Robert Park's The Immigrant Press and Its Control is published.
 * Ferdinand Tönnies' Kritik der öffentlichen Meinung (On Public Opinion) is published.
 * Max Weber's Economy and Society is published in two volumes (edited by Marianne Weber).
 * Max Weber's Science as a Vocation is published.
 * James P. Lichtenberg serves as president of the American Sociological Association.
 * Howard W. Odum founds the Journal of Social Forces

Births

 * March 18: Seymour Martin Lipset
 * June 11: Erving Goffman

1923

 * Nels Anderson's and the Council of Social Agencies of Chicago's The Hobo is published.
 * Victor Branford's Science and sanctity : a study in the scientific approach to unity is published.
 * Georg Lukács' History and Class Consciousness is published.
 * George Herbert Mead's Scientific Method and the Moral Sciences is published.
 * William F. Ogburn's Social Change With Respect to Culture and Original Nature is published.
 * W. I. Thomas's The Unadjusted Girl is published.
 * Max Weber's General Economic History is published.
 * Ulysses G. Weatherly serves as president of the ASA.
 * Founding of the Social Sciences Research Council

Deaths

 * August 19: Vilfredo Pareto

1924

 * Franklin Giddings' The Scientific Study of Human Society is published.
 * Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse's Social Development: Its nature and companions is published.
 * George Herbert Mead's The Genesis of the Self and Social Control is published.
 * Helmuth Plessner's Limits of Community: A Critique of Social Radiclaism is published.
 * Albion Small's Origins of Sociology is published.
 * Max Scheler's Essays Toward a Sociology of Knowledge is published.
 * Charles A. Ellwood serves as president of the ASA.

Births

 * August 10: Jean-François Lyotard

1925

 * Alfred Louis Kroeber's Handbook of the Indians of California is published.
 * Marcel Mauss' The Gift is published.
 * Robert Ezra Park's The City is published.
 * Pitirim Sorokin's The Sociology of Revolution is published.

1926

 * Hans Freyer's Belief, Style and The State is published.
 * Bronislaw Malinowski's Crime and Custom in Savage Society is published.
 * Max Scheler's Sociology of Knowledge is published.
 * R. H. Tawney's Religion and the Rise of Capitalism is published.
 * Ferdinand Tönnies' Property is published.

1927

 * Franz Boas' Primitive Art is published.
 * Alexander Carr-Saunders' The Social Structure of England and Wales is published.
 * Sigmund Freud's The Future of An Illusion is published.
 * Robert H. Lowie's Origins of the State is published.
 * Bronislaw Malinowski's Sex and Repression in Savage Society is published.
 * Martin Heidegger's Being and Time is published.
 * Pitirim Sorokin's Social Mobility is published.
 * William Sumner's and Andrew Kellner's The Science of Society is published.
 * W. I. Thomas serves as president of the ASA.

Births

 * December 8: Niklas Luhmann

1928

 * Melville Jean Herskovits' The American Negro is published.
 * Robert Morrison MacIver's Community is published.
 * Karl Mannheim's Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge is published.
 * Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa is published.
 * Max Scheler's Social Mobility is published.
 * Louis Wirth's The Ghetto is published.

1929

 * Hans Freyer's Sociology as a Science of Reality is published.
 * Helen Merrell Lynd's and Robert Staughton Lynd's Middletown: A study in Contemporary American Culture is published.
 * Bronislaw Malinowski's The Sexual Life of Savages is published.
 * Karl Mannheim's Ideology and Utopia is published.
 * Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre found the Annales School in Strasbourg.
 * Morris Ginsberg take over the chair of Sociology at the LSE.