The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1890s.

1890

• Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Bough is published.
• Alfred Marshall's Principles of Economics is published.
• Jose Rizal's La Indolencia de los Filipinos is published in Madrid.
• Georg Simmel's Social Differentiation is published.
• Gabriel Tarde's Laws of Imitation is published.
• Frank Wilson Blackmar starts teaching Elements of Sociology to graduate students at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. This becomes the oldest continuing sociology course in America

Births

• March 8: Oswald von Nell-Breuning

1891

• The Department of History and Sociology is established at the University of Kansas
• Beatrice Webb's Co-operative Movement is published.
• Edward Alexander Westermarck's The History of Human Marriage is published.

1892

• Albion Small establishes the 1st Department of Sociology The Chicago School of Sociology.
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper is published.
• Georg Simmel's Problems of the Philosophy of History is published.

1893

• Émile Durkheim's The Division of Labour in Society is published.
• Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse's The Labour Movement is published.
• The final volume of Karl Marx's Capital is published (edited by Engels).
• Georg Simmel's Introduction to the Science of Ethics is published.
• Wilhelm Windelband's A History of Philosophy is published.
• Rene Worms founded the small Institut International de Sociologie

1894

• Albion Woodbury Small writes the 1st textbook in Sociology: An introduction to the study of the society
• W. E. B. Du Bois' The Philadelphia Negro is published.

1895

• Émile Durkheim's On the Normality of Crime is published.
• Émile Durkheim's The Rules of the Sociological Method is published.
• The first publication of The American Journal of Sociology by The University of Chicago Press

1896

• Henri Bergson's Matter and Memory is published.
• Franklin Henry Giddings' Principles of Sociology is published.
• Gaetano Mosca's The Ruling Class is published.
• Rene Worms' The Nature and Method of Sociology is published.

1897

• W. E. B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk is published.
• Émile Durkheim's Suicide is published.
• Vilfredo Pareto's The New Theories of Economics is published.
• The First publication of L'Année Sociologique.

Births

• May 22: Stanislaw Ossowski
• June 22: Norbert Elias
• August 28: Louis Wirth

1898

• Franklin Henry Giddings' Elements of Sociology is published.
• Gabriel Tarde's Social Laws: An Outline of Sociology is published.
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Women and Economics is published.

1899

• Karl Kautsky's On The Agrarian Question is published.
• Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin's The Development of Capitalism in Russia is published.
• Thorstein Bunde Veblen's of The Theory of the Leisure Class is published.