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 Nuer 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 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 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.

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' 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 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.

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 Enlightenment is published.
 * Fei Xiaotong's Shengyu zhidu 《生育制度》 (The institutions for reproduction) 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.
 * Fei Xiaotong's Xiangtu chongjian 《鄉土重建》 (Rural recovery) is published.
 * Alfred Kinsey' Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male is published.
 * Robert Lowie' Social Organisation is published.
 * C. Wright Mills' The New Men of Power: America's Labor Leaders 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.