The Sociological Association, founded in 1959 in Bulgaria, was restructured in 1969 as the Bulgarian Sociological Association.

Flemish Sociological Association and Belgian Francophone Association of Sociology and Anthropology were formed in 1975.

Austrian Association for Sociology, founded in 1950 for sociologists in Austria, elected August Maria Knoll as the first president.

The Constituent Assembly authorized the statute of the Albanian Sociological Association in Tirana on November 21, 2006.