Education
University of Wisconsin–Madison. University of Minnesota. University of North Dakota.
University of Wisconsin–Madison. University of Minnesota. University of North Dakota.
Lundberg received his bachelor"s degree from the University of North Dakota in 1920, a master"s degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1922, and a doctorate in 1925 from the University of Minnesota. Following his doctorate, he began a faculty position at the University of Washington, but left after a year for postdoctoral studies at Columbia University, and then took a position as an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh. In 1930, he became director of the Bureau of Social Research at the Pittsburgh Federation of Social Agencies, but he soon left Pittsburgh for a faculty position at Columbia.
In 1934 he worked with the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, and soon thereafter moved to Bennington College in Vermont, where he was professor of sociology and statistics.
After holding additional faculty positions at the University of Minnesota, Brigham Young University, and Stanford University, he joined the University of Washington in 1945 as professor and chair, and remained there for the rest of his career. Lundberg served at the 33rd President of the American Sociological Society.
He was also president of the Pacific Sociological Association, the Eastern Sociological Society, and the Sociological Research Association, and was the editor of the journal Sociometry from 1941 to 1947.
Lundberg"s approach to sociology is usually categorized as neo-positivism.