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