The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1850s.
| 1840s . 1850s in sociology . 1860s |
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1850 edit
Events
- Karl Marx The Class Struggles in France is published.
1851 edit
Events
- Herbert Spencer's Social Statics is published.
1852 edit
Events
- Karl Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is published.
Births
- August 23: Arnold Toynbee
1854 edit
Events
- Auguste Comte's The System of Positive Philosophy is published.
1855 edit
Events
- Søren Kierkegaard's Attack Upon Christendom is published.
- Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play's Les Ouvriers européens is published.
1856 edit
Events
1857 edit
Events
- Karl Marx's Grundrisse is written (but not published until 1941).
1859 edit
Events
- Karl Marx's A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy is published.