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1860s The 1860s (pronounced "eighteen-sixties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1860, and ended on December 31, 1869. The decade was noted for featuring numerous major societal shifts in the Americas. In the United St ...

^. 1870s in sociology ^.

1880s The 1880s (pronounced "eighteen-eighties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1880, and ended on December 31, 1889. The period was characterized in general by economic growth and prosperity in many parts of the world, ...

, - , style="text-align:center;", Other topics: Anthropology ^. Western fashion The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1870s.

1871

* Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play's '' Le Organisation de Famille'' is published. *

Carl Menger Carl Menger von Wolfensgrün (; ; 28 February 1840 – 26 February 1921) was an Austrian economist and the founder of the Austrian School of economics. Menger contributed to the development of the theories of marginalism and marginal utility ...

's '' Principles of Economics'' is published. * Lewis Henry Morgan's '' Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family'' is published. * Sir Edward Burnett Tylor's '' In Primitive Culture'' is published.

1873

* Herbert Spencer's '' The Study of Sociology'' is published.

1874

Francis Galton Sir Francis Galton, FRS FRAI (; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911), was an English Victorian era polymath: a statistician, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto- ...

's '' English men of science : their nature and nurture'' is published. * Pierre Guillaume Frédéric Le Play's '' La réforme sociale en France déduite de l’observation comparée des peuples Européens'' is published. * Henry Sidgwick's '' The Method of Ethics'' is published.

1875

's '' Statistics by intercomparison, with remarks on the law of frequency of error'' is published. * Frederic Harrison's '' Order and Progress'' is published.

1878

* Friedrich Engels' ''

Anti-Dühring ''Anti-Dühring'' (german: Herrn Eugen Dührings Umwälzung der Wissenschaft, "Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science") is a book by Friedrich Engels, first published in German in 1878. It had previously been serialised in the newspaper ''V ...

'' is published.

1879

* Henry George's, '' Progress and Poverty'' is published. Sociology Sociology timelines