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1920s in sociology

overview of sociology-related events during the 1920's

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ2851940 ↗
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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.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1920, 1921—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where 1920s, sociology and overview can be independently traced.
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