# 1940s in sociology

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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.