title: 1870s in sociology
text: # 1870s in sociology
  
  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'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'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
  
  * Francis Galton'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 is published.
  
  ## 1879
  
  * Henry George's, Progress and Poverty is published.
  