1840s in sociology

The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1840s.

1840

• John Stuart Mill's A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive is published.
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's What is Property? is published.

1842

• Auguste Comte's The Course in Positive Philosophy is published
• Auguste Comte's Sociologie Comme Instruction Affirmative is published
• Auguste Comte's Social Statics and Social Dynamics is published

1843

• Søren Kierkegaard's Either/Or is published

1844

• Friedrich Engels' Outline of A Critique of Political Economy is published
• Friedrich Engels' The Holy Family is published
• Karl Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts is published
• Max Stirner's The Ego and Its Own is published

1845

• Friedrich Engels' Conditions of the Working Class in England is published

1846

• Karl Marx's The German Ideology is published
• Pierre Joseph Proudhon's Economic Conradictions or the Philosophy of Poverty is published

1847

• Søren Kierkegaard's Two Ages and the Present Age is published
• Friedrich Engels' The Principles of Communism is published
• Karl Marx's The Poverty of Philosophy is published

1848

• Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto is published
• Study group on the social question held attended by Frederic Le Play, Jean Reynaud, Lamartine, François Arago, Carnot, Lanjuinais, Tocqueville, Montalembert, Sainte-Beuve, Agénor de Gasparin, Abbé Dupanloup, Adolphe Thiers, Auguste Cochin, Charles Dupin and others

1849

• Søren Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death is published.