George A. Lundberg

George Andrew Lundberg (1895 to 1966) was an American sociologist, born in Fairdale, North Dakota, to parents who were immigrants from Sweden. He took his bachelor's degree at the University of North Dakota, a master's at the University of Wisconsin and a doctorate in 1925 at the University of Minnesota, where he studied under Luther Lee Bernard and F. Stuart Chapin. He held posts at the University of Washington, Columbia, the University of Pittsburgh, Bennington College, Stanford and elsewhere, and from 1945 was professor and chair at the University of Washington. He served as president of the American Sociological Society and edited the journal Sociometry from 1941 to 1947. His approach is usually categorized as neo-positivism, and he was critical of the Chicago school, feeling that its methods were not precise enough to generate reliable results. His books include Social Research (1929), Foundations of Sociology (1939) and Can Science Save Us? (1947).