• 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.

• 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

• 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 edit

• March 18: Seymour Martin Lipset
• June 11: Erving Goffman

• 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 edit

• August 19: Vilfredo Pareto

• 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 edit

• August 10: Jean-François Lyotard

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 edit

• December 8: Niklas Luhmann

• 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.

• 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.