The Midwest Sociological Society (MSS) is a professional organization for academic and applied sociologists as well as students of the discipline to promote interest in and advance knowledge of sociologists. The society was founded in 1936 and held its first annual meeting in 1937. In 2011–2012 its membership marked its 75th anniversary at annual meetings held in St Louis and Minneapolis.

While membership of the society is open to everyone, the majority of its 1300 members (2/3) are from the Midwest.

The society publishes the scholarly journal, The Sociological Quarterly; holds an annual meeting each spring; supports fellowship, grant, and award programs; and supports research by its members.

Presidents + Past presidents of the Midwest Sociological SocietyNameTermL. Guy Brown1937J. O. Hertzler1937–38Noel P. Gist1938–39Leslie D. Zeleny1939–40Clyde W. Hart1940–41Carrol D. Clark1941–42James M. Reinhardt1942–44David E. Lindstrom1944–45Ernest Manheim1945–46Howard P. Becker1946–47T. Earl Suellenger1947Lloyd V. Ballard1947–48Ray E. Wakeley1948–49George V. Vold1949–50Thomas D. Eliot1950–51J. Howell Atwood1951–52Donald O. Cowgill1952–53William H. Sewell1953–54John H. Burma1954–55Harold W. Saunders1955–56C. Terrence Pihlblad1956–57Paul Meadows1957–58Elio D. Monachesi1958–59Paul J. Campisi1959–60Ruth Shonle Cavan1960–61Arnold M. Rose1961–62Manford H. Kuhn1962–63Alan P. Bates1963–64Robert L. McNamara1964–65Marshall B. Clinard1965–66William L. Kolb1966–67Raymond Mack1967–68Robert W. Habenstein1968–69Nicholas Babchuk1969–70Roy G. Francis1970–71Ira Reiss1971–72Robert F. Winch1972–73Carolyn Rose1973–74Warren A. Peterson1974–75Helena Z. Lopata1975–76Richard H. Hall1976–77Charles K. Warriner1977–78Scott Greer1978–79Joan Huber1979–80Ethel Shanas1980–81Hans O. Mauksch1981–82Scott G. McNall1982–83James L. McCartney1983–84Michael Aiken1984–85Peter M. Hall1985–86John P. Clark1986–87Kathleen S. Crittenden1987–88Norman K. Denzin1988–89Roberta G. Simmons1989–90Alan Booth1990–91Susan E. Wright1991–92Clark McPhail1992–93Carl Couch1993–94Richard T. Schaefer1994–95Barbara S. Heyl1995–96Anthony M. Orum1996–97R. Dean Wright1997–98Joanne Nagel1998–99Joel Best1999–00John E. Farley2000–01Gary Alan Fine2001–02Philip Olson2002–03Chris Prendergast2003–04Eleanor Miller2004–05Robert Benford2005–06Patricia & Peter Adler2006–07Helen A. Moore2007–08Susan Stall2008–09Diane Pike2009–10Peter Kivisto2010–11Mary Zimmerman2011–12Linda Lindsey2012–13Barbara Keating2013–14Kevin Leicht2014-15Doug Hatmann2015-16Deborah White2016-17Phyllis Baker2017-18Marlynn May2018-19Tom Gerschick2019-20Julie Pelton2020-21

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