# 1920s in sociology

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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.