1952
- Sociology is banned by communist authorities in China and is labeled as a bourgeois pseudoscience.
- Hans Jurgen Eysenck's Scientific Study of Personality is published.
- Melville J. Herskovits's Economic Anthropology: A study in Comparative Economics is published.
- Robert E. Park's Human Communities is published.
- Talcott Parsons' and Edward Shils' Towards a general theory of action is published.
- Philippine Sociological Society is founded as a non-stock, non-profit professional association that is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- Alfred Radcliffe-Brown's The Structure and Function of Primitive Society is published.
- Dorothy Swaine Thomas' The Salvage is published.
- Dorothy Swaine Thomas serves as the first woman president of the American Sociological Association.
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