1930s in sociology

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* Anthropology
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* Fashion
* Music
* Science and technology
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The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1930s.

## 1930

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* Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents is published.
* 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
* Howard W. Obum serves as President of the ASA

## 1931

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* 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

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* April 26: George Herbert Mead
* June 11: Franklin H. Giddings
* December 13: Gustave Le Bon

## 1932

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* 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

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* 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

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* November 23: Ali Shariati

## 1934

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* 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

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* Moisés Espírito Santo

## 1935

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* 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

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* 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

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

## 1937

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* 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

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* 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

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* January 18: Anthony Giddens

### Deaths

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* Paul Fauconnet

## 1939

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* 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.