1930s in sociology

• 1920s
• 1930s in sociology
• 1940s

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• Anthropology
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• Fashion
• Music
• Science and technology
• Television

The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1930s.

1930

• Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents is published. ^[1]
• Maurice Halbwachs' The Causes of Suicide is published.
• Robert Redfield's Tepozltan: Life in a Mexican Village is published.
• Clifford Shaw's The Jack Roller: A Delinquent Boy's Own Story is published.
• Pitirim Sorokin's Rural Sociology is published.
• Leon Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution is published.
• Founding of The Frankfurt School ^[2]
• Howard W. Obum serves as President of the ASA

1931

• Marc Bloch's French Rural History is published.
• Hans Freyer's Revolution of Right is published.
• Robert Morrison MacIver's Sociology is published.
• Alfred Radcliffe-Brown's Social organization of Australian tribes is published.
• R.H. Tawney's Equality is published.
• Emory S. Bogardus serves as president of the ASA.

Deaths

• April 26: George Herbert Mead
• June 11: Franklin H. Giddings ^[3]
• December 13: Gustave Le Bon ^[4]

1932

• Henri Bergson's The Two Sources of Morality and Religion is published.
• George Elton Mayo's Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization is published.
• Alfred Radcliffe-Brown's Social organization of Australian tribes is published.
• R. H. Tawney's Land and Labour in China is published.
• Beatrice Webb's and Sidney Webb's Methods of Social Study is published.

1933

• Alexander Carr-Saunders' The Professions is published.
• Friedrich Hayek's Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle is published.
• William F. Ogburn's Recent Social Trends in the United States is published.
• Nazi party comes to power in Germany, many intellectuals flee, Ferdinand Tonnies is forced out his post as president of the German Society for Sociology and replaced by Hans Freyer

Births

• November 23: Ali Shariati ^[5]

1934

• Ruth Fulton Benedict's Patterns of Culture is published.
• Alexander Carr-Saunders' A Century of Pauperism is published.
• Morris Ginsberg's Sociology is published.
• George Herbert Mead's Mind, Self and Society is published.
• Hans Freyer suspends the activity of the German Society for Sociology.

Births

• Moisés Espírito Santo

1935

• Antonio Gramsci's The Prison Notebooks are published.
• Harold Lasswell's Politics: Who Gets What, When, How is published.
• Helen Merrell Lynd's Middletown: A study in Cultural Conflicts is published.
• Bronislaw Malinowski's Coral Gardens and their Magic is published.
• Karl Mannheim's Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction is published.
• Margaret Mead's Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies is published.
• Ferdinand Tönnies' Geist der Neuzeit is published.
• Alfred Weber's Cultural History as Cultural Sociology is published.
• Sidney Webb's and Beatrice Webb's Soviet communism : a new civilisation ? is published.

1936

• Gaetano Mosca's History of Political Doctrines is published.
• William F. Ogburn's The Social Effects of Aviation is published.
• Robert E. Park's Human Ecology is published.
• Edwin Sutherland's and H.J. Locke's 24,000 Homeless Men
• Edward Alexander Westermarck's The Future of Marriage in Western Civilisation is published.
• Ideology and Utopia , by Louis Wirth and Karl Mannheim, is published.
• Henry P. Fairchild serves as president of the ASA.
• The ASA begin publishing the American Sociological Review.

Deaths

• April 9: Ferdinand Tönnies
• April 27: Karl Pearson
• May 3: Robert Michels
• May 8: Oswald Spengler

1937

• Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard's Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande are published.
• Talcott Parsons' The Structure of Social Action is published.
• Leon Trotsky's The Revolution Betrayed is published.
• William Lloyd Warner's A Black Civilization: A Social Study of an Australian Tribe is published.

1938

• Chester Barnard's The Functions of the Executive is published.
• Johann Huizinga's Homo Ludens is published.
• Serafin N. Macaraig's An Introduction to Sociology is published.
• Thomas Humphrey Marshall's Class Conflict and Social Stratification is published.
• Thomas Humphrey Marshall's The Population Problem: The Experts and the Public is published.
• Robert K. Merton's Social Structure and Anomie is published.
• Werner Sombart's Vom Menschen is published.
• Richard Titmuss's Poverty and Population is published.
• Louis Wirth's Urbanism as a way of life is published.
• Frank H. Hankins serves as president of the ASA.

Births

• January 18: Anthony Giddens

Deaths

• Paul Fauconnet

1939

• Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproductibility is published.
• Ruth Durant's Watling: A Social Survey is published.
• Norbert Elias' The Civilizing Process is published.
• Fei Xiaotong's Peasant Life in China: A Field Study of Country Life in the Yangtze Valley is published.
• Edward Franklin Frazier's The Negro Family in the United States is published.
• Sigmund Freud's Moses and Monotheism is published.
• Alfred Radcliffe-Brown's Taboo is published.
• George Lundberg's Foundations of Sociology is published.
• Joseph Schumpeter's Business Cycles is published.
• Richard Titmuss' Our Food Problem is published.

References

1. Freud, Sigmund (1930). Das Unbehagen in der Kultur. Wien: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag – via Internet Archive.
2. "Frankfurt School". Britannica. Retrieved 2025-11-03.
3. Hankins, F. H. (1931). "Franklin Henry Giddins, 1855-1931: Some Aspects of His Sociological Theory". American Journal of Sociology. 37 (3): 349–367. ISSN   0002-9602.
4. McClelland, J. S. (2005). A History of Western Political Thought. Routledge. p. 660. ISBN   9781134812103.
5. Gheissari, Ali (1998). Iranian Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century. Austin: University of Texas Press.