title: 1900s in sociology
text: # 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
  