1955
- Theodor Adorno's Prisms is published.
- Gordon Allport's Becoming is published.
- Milovan Djilas' The New Class is published.
- Lucien Goldmann's The Hidden God; a study of Pascal and Racine is published.
- George Alexander Kelly's The Psychology of Personal Constructs is published.
- Paul Lazarsfeld's Personal Influence is published.
- Herbert Marcuse's Eros and Civilization is published.
- Joan Woodward's The Dockworker is published.
- Barbara Wootton's Foundations of Wage Policy is published.
- Leopold Von Wiese retires as chairperson of the German Society for Sociology and is succeeded by Helmuth Plessner.
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