1900s in sociology
# 1900s in sociology

The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1900s (decade).

## 1900

* Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams is published.
* Georg Simmel's The Philosophy of Money is published.

## 1901

* Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree's Poverty, A Study of Town Life is published.

### Births

* February 13: Paul Lazarsfeld
* April 13: Jacques Lacan
* June 16: Henri Lefebvre
* December 16: Margaret Mead

## 1902

* Charles Horton Cooley's Human Nature and the Social Order is published.
* Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin's What is to be Done? is published.
* Werner Sombart's Der moderne Kapitalismus is published
* Lester Frank Ward's Dynamic Sociology is published.
* Beatrice Webb's and Sidney Webb's Problems of Modern Industry is published.

## 1903

* Victor Branford's On the origin and use of the word Sociology and on the relation of sociological to other studies and to practical problems is published.
* Charles Booth's Life and Labour of the People of London is published.
* W. E. B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk is published.
* Émile Durkheim's and Marcel Mauss' Primitive Classification is published.
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Home: Its Work and Influences is published.
* Georg Simmel's The Metropolis and Mental Life is published.
* Lester Frank Ward's Pure Sociology is published.

## 1904

* Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse's Democracy and Reaction is published.
* Thorstein Bunde Veblen's The Theory of Business Enterprise is published.
* British Sociological Society is founded, James Bryce is elected first president.

## 1905

* Jane Addams's An International Patriotism is published.
* Georg Simmel's Philosophy of Fashion is published.
* Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is published.
* The American Sociological Society is founded; this is later renamed the American Sociological Association.
* The School of Sociology set up by the Charity Organisation Society for the training of Social Workers.

## 1906

* Werner Sombart's Why is there no Socialism in the United States? is published.
* William Graham Sumner's Folkways is published.
* Lester Frank Ward's Applied Sociology is published.

## 1907

* Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution is published.
* Albion Small's General Sociology is published.
* Albion Small's Adam Smith and Modern Sociology is published.
* H.G. Wells' The So-Called Science of Society is published.
* Chair of Sociology at the London School of Economics founded, the first in the United Kingdom, and is taken by Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse.

## 1908

* Friedrich Nietzsche's Ecce Homo is published.
* Georg Simmel's Sociology: Investigations on the Forms of Sociation (including "The Dyad" and "The Stranger") is published.
* Georges Sorel's Reflections on Violence is published.
* Georges Sorel's The Illusions of Progress is published.

## 1909

* Charles Cooley's Social Organization is published.
* Mary Coolidge's Chinese Immigrants is published.
* Charles Arnold van Gennep's Rites of Passage is published.
* Maurice Halbwach's Thèse de Droit is published.
* Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse's The Origin and Development of Moral Ideas is published.
* Karl Kautsky's Road to Power is published.
* W. I. Thomas' Source Book of Social Origins is published.
* The German Society for Sociology Is Founded by Max Weber, Georg Simmel and Ferdinand Tönnies among others, Tonnies serves as first president.

### Deaths

* August 19: Ludwig Gumplowicz
