1840s in sociology

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* 1830s
* 1840s in sociology
* 1850s

Other topics in 1840s:

* Fashion

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

## 1840

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* Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's What is Property? is published.

## 1841

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* Auguste Comte published Volume 5 of The Course of Positive Philosophy: La Partie Historique De La Philosophie Sociale[1]

## 1842

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* Auguste Comte publishes Volume 6 of The Course in Positive Philosophy: Le Complément De La Philosophie Sociale Et Les Conclusions Générales,[2] completing the series.
* Auguste Comte's Sociologie Comme Instruction Affirmative is published
* Auguste Comte's Social Statics and Social Dynamics is published

## 1843

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* Søren Kierkegaard's Either/Or is published in two volumes.[3]
* John Stuart Mill's A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive is published in two volumes.[4][5]

## 1844

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* Friedrich Engels' Outline of A Critique of Political Economy is published
* Engels and Marx's The Holy Family is published
* Karl Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts are written.^
* Max Stirner's The Ego and Its Own is published in German.

## 1845

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* Friedrich Engels' Conditions of the Working Class in England (original German edition) is published

## 1846

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* Marx and Engels' The German Ideology is written.^
* Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's The System of Economic Contradictions or the Philosophy of Poverty is published
* Søren Kierkegaard's Two Ages: A Literary Review is published

## 1847

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* Friedrich Engels' The Principles of Communism is written during October–November
* Karl Marx's The Poverty of Philosophy is published, a critique of Proudhon's 1846 work.

## 1848

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* Engels and 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

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

## References

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1. ^ "Project Gutenberg's Cours de philosophie positive, vol 5/6, by Auguste Comte". Project Gutenberg. 23 August 2016. Archived from the original on 2019-02-22. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
2. ^ "Project Gutenberg's Cours de philosophie positive, vol. 6/6, by Auguste Comte". Project Gutenberg. 28 December 2015. Archived from the original on 2019-02-22. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
3. ^ "Søren Kierkegaard | Danish philosopher". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
4. ^ Mill, John Stuart (1843). A system of logic : ratiocinative and inductive, being a connected view of the principles of evidence, and the methods of scientific investigation. Vol. 1\. London: London : John W. Parker.
5. ^ Mill, John Stuart (1843). A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of ... Vol. 2\. London: John W. Parker, WestStrand.