The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1860s.
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1860 edit
Births
- July 3: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1861 edit
Events
- Sir Henry James Sumner Maine's Ancient Law is published
1862 edit
Events
- Lewis Morgan's The Indian Journals is published.
- Herbert Spencer's First Principles is published.
1864 edit
Events
- Lewis Morgan's Ancient Society is published.
- Herbert Spencer's Laws In General is published.
Births
- February 14: Robert E. Park
- March 30: Franz Oppenheimer
- April 21: Max Weber
- August 17: Charles Cooley
1867 edit
Events
- The First Volume of Karl Marx's Capital is published.
- The foundation of the London Positivist Society by Richard Congreve.
1869 edit
Events
- Francis Galton's Hereditary Genius is published.
- John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women is published.