1880s in sociology

The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1880s.

1881
Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play creates the sociological magazine La Reforme Sociale.

1882

 * Friedrich Nietzsche's The Gay Science is published.
 * Leslie Stephen's The Science of Ethics is published.

1883

 * Lester Frank Ward's Dynamic Sociology is published.
 * Francis Galton's Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development is published.
 * Thomas Hill Green's Prolegomena to Ethics is published.
 * Ludwig Gumplowicz's Race Struggle is published.
 * Carl Menger's Investigations into the Method of the Social Sciences with Special Reference to Economics is published.
 * Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is published.
 * Henry Sidgwick's Principles of Political Economy is published.
 * William Sumner's What Social Classes Owe Each Other is published.

Births

 * February 8: Joseph Schumpeter

Deaths

 * March 9: Arnold Toynbee
 * March 14: Karl Marx

1884

 * Friedrich Engels' The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State is published.
 * Carl Menger's The Errors of Historicism is published.
 * Gaetano Mosca's Theory of Governments and Parliamentary Government is published.
 * Foundation of the Fabian Society

1885

 * Ludwig Gumplowicz's Outline for Sociology is published.
 * Sir Henry James Sumner Maine's Popular Government is published.
 * The Second Volume of Karl Marx's Capital is published (edited by Engels).

1886

 * Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is published.
 * Jose Rizal's Dimanche des Rameaux is published in Berlin.

1887

 * Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals is published.
 * Ferdinand Tönnies' Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft is published.

1888

 * James Bryce's The American Commonwealth is published.

Births

 * July 6: Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

Deaths

 * February 3: Henry Maine

1889

 * Jane Addams establishes The Social Settlement in Chicago.
 * Henri Bergson's Time and Free Will is published.
 * Jose Rizal's Filipinas dentro de cien años, a socio-political essay, is published in Madrid.