The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1930s.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.