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.