1850s in sociology
# 1850s in sociology

The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1850s.

## 1850

Events

* Karl Marx The Class Struggles in France is published.

## 1851

Events

* Herbert Spencer's Social Statics is published.

## 1852

Events

* Karl Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is published.

Births

* August 23: Arnold Toynbee

## 1854

Events

* Auguste Comte's The System of Positive Philosophy is published.

## 1855

Events

* Søren Kierkegaard's Attack Upon Christendom is published.
* Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play's Les Ouvriers européens is published.

## 1856

Events

* Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play founds the Société internationale des études pratiques d'économie sociale.

## 1857

Events

* Karl Marx's Grundrisse is written (but not published until 1941).

## 1859

Events

* Karl Marx's A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy is published.
