1890s in sociology
# 1890s in sociology

The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1890s.

## 1890

* Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Bough is published.
* Alfred Marshall's Principles of Economics is published.
* Jose Rizal's La Indolencia de los Filipinos is published in Madrid.
* Georg Simmel's Social Differentiation is published.
* Gabriel Tarde's Laws of Imitation is published.
* Frank Wilson Blackmar starts teaching Elements of Sociology to graduate students at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. This becomes the oldest continuing sociology course in America

### Births

* March 8: Oswald von Nell-Breuning

## 1891

* The Department of History and Sociology is established at the University of Kansas
* Beatrice Webb's Co-operative Movement is published.
* Edward Alexander Westermarck's The History of Human Marriage is published.

## 1892

* Albion Small establishes the 1st Department of Sociology The Chicago School of Sociology.
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper is published.
* Georg Simmel's Problems of the Philosophy of History is published.

## 1893

* Émile Durkheim's The Division of Labour in Society is published.
* Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse's The Labour Movement is published.
* The final volume of Karl Marx's Capital is published (edited by Engels).
* Georg Simmel's Introduction to the Science of Ethics is published.
* Wilhelm Windelband's A History of Philosophy is published.
* Rene Worms founded the small Institut International de Sociologie

## 1894

* Albion Woodbury Small writes the 1st textbook in Sociology: An introduction to the study of the society
* W. E. B. Du Bois' The Philadelphia Negro is published.

## 1895

* Émile Durkheim's On the Normality of Crime is published.
* Émile Durkheim's The Rules of the Sociological Method is published.
* The first publication of The American Journal of Sociology by The University of Chicago Press

## 1896

* Henri Bergson's Matter and Memory is published.
* Franklin Henry Giddings' Principles of Sociology is published.
* Gaetano Mosca's The Ruling Class is published.
* Rene Worms' The Nature and Method of Sociology is published.

## 1897

* W. E. B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk is published.
* Émile Durkheim's Suicide is published.
* Vilfredo Pareto's The New Theories of Economics is published.
* The First publication of L'Année Sociologique.

### Births

* May 22: Stanislaw Ossowski
* June 22: Norbert Elias
* August 28: Louis Wirth

## 1898

* Franklin Henry Giddings' Elements of Sociology is published.
* Gabriel Tarde's Social Laws: An Outline of Sociology is published.
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Women and Economics is published.

## 1899

* Karl Kautsky's On The Agrarian Question is published.
* Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin's The Development of Capitalism in Russia is published.
* Thorstein Bunde Veblen's of The Theory of the Leisure Class is published.
