# 1980s in sociology

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The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1980s.

## 1980

* Raymond Boudon's Crisis in sociology : problems of sociological epistemology is published.
* William Catton's Overshoot is published.
* Michel Foucault's Power/Knowledge is published.
* Richard Sennett's Authority is published.
* Immanuel Wallerstein's The Modern World-System (volume 2): Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600-1750

## 1981

* Raymond Boudon's Logic of social action : an introduction to sociological analysis is published.
* Andre Gunder Frank's Crisis in the third world is published.
* Erving Goffman's Forms of Talk is published.
* Jürgen Habermas's The Theory of Communicative Action is published.
* Thomas Humphrey Marshall's The Right of Welfare and Other Essays is published.
* Leslie George Scarman's Brixton disorders 10–12 April 1981 : report of an enquiry is published.
* Alain Touraine's La Voix et le Regard is published.
* Michel Wieviorka establishes the Centre d'Analyses et d'Interventions Sociologique (CADIS)

## 1982

* Raymond Boudon's and François Bourricaud's Dictionnaire critique de la sociologie is published.
* Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies' The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in 70s Britain is published.
* Colin Crouch's Trade unions: the logic of collective action is published.
* Andre Gunder Frank's Dynamics of the Global Crisis is published.
* Edmund Leach's Social Anthropology is published.
* Doug McAdam's Political Process and the Development of the Black Insurgency 1930-1970 is published.
* Ralph Miliband's Capitalist Democracy in Britain is published.
* Karl Popper's Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics is published.
* Rosalind H. Williams' Dream Worlds is published.
* Erving Goffman serves as president of the American Sociological Association.

### Deaths

* November 19: Erving Goffman

## 1983

* Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities is published.
* Raymond Aron's Clausewitz is published.
* Ernest Gellner's Nations and Nationalism is published.
* Ian Hacking's Representing and Intervening is published.
* Sandra Harding's and Merrill B. Hintikka's (eds.) Discovering Reality is published.
* Sal Restivo's The Social Relations of Physics, Mysticism, and Mathematics is published
* Morris Janowitz's The Reconstruction of Patriotism is published.
* Jean-François Lyotard's The Differend is published.
* Ralph Miliband's Class, Power and State Power is published.
* Jean-Luc Nancy's La communauté désoeuvrée is published.
* Jean-Luc Nancy's L'Impératif catégorique is published.
* Alain Touraine's Solidarity: The Analysis of a Social Movement is published.
* Michael Young's Social scientist as innovator is published.
* Alice S. Rossi serves as president of the ASA.

### Deaths

* October 17: Raymond Aron

## 1984

* Anthony Giddens' The Constitution of Society
* Christopher Lasch's The Minimal Self is published.
* Charles Murray's Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 is published.
* Michael Piore's & Charles Sabel's Second industrial divide: possibilities for prosperity is published.
* Roy Wallis' The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life is published.

## 1985

* James S. Coleman's Becoming Adult in a Changing Society is published.
* Ernest Gellner's The Psychoanalytic Movement is published.
* David Harvey's Consciousness and the Urban Experience is published.
* Michel Maffesoli's Shadow of Dionysus is published.
* Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death is published.
* Jeffrey Weeks' Sexuality and its Discontents is published.
* Viviana Zelizer's Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children is published.

## 1986

* Jean Baudrillard's America is published.
* Ulrich Beck's Risk Society is published.
* Raymond Boudon's Theories of social change : a critical appraisal is published.
* Fei Xiaotong and others' Small Towns in China: Functions, Problems & Prospects is published.
* Amos Hawley's Human Ecology is published.
* Gilbert Lewis' Concepts of Health and Illness in a Sepik Society is published.
* Michael Mann's Sources of Social Power (volume 1) is published.

## 1987

* James Coleman's Public and Private High Schools is published.
* Sandra Harding's Feminism and Methodology is published.
* Sandra Harding's and Jean F O'Barr's Sex and Scientific Inquiry is published.
* George Homans' Certainties and Doubts is published.
* Paul Gilroy's There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack is published.
* Scott Lash's and John Urry's The End of organized capitalism is published.
* The European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences gives its first award to Norbert Elias for his Society of Individuals.

## 1988

* Stanley Aronowitz's Science as Power is published.
* John Bowlby's A Secure Base is published.
* Frances Fox Piven's and Richard Cloward's Why Americans Don't Vote is published.
* Dick Hobbs' Doing the Business is published.
* Michel Maffesoli's The Time of the Tribes: The Decline of Individualism in Mass Society is published.
* Andrew W. Metcalfe's For freedom and dignity : historical agency and class structures in the coalfields of NSW is published.
* Serge Moscovici's La machine à faire des dieux is published and wins the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences.
* Tom Schuller's and Michael Young's [ed.] Rhythms of society is published.
* Michel Wieviorka's Society and terrorism is published and wins the Bulzoni Editore Special Award.
* Herbert J. Gans serves as president of the American Sociological Association.

## 1989

* Zygmunt Bauman's Modernity and the Holocaust is published and wins the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences.
* Thomas Bottomore's and Robert Brym's (ed.) The Capitalist Class is published.
* Raymond Boudon's Analysis of ideology is published.
* Ralph Miliband's Class Struggle in Contemporary Capitalism is published.
* Immanuel Wallerstein's The Modern World-System (all volumes) are published.
* Joan Huber serves as president of the ASA.

### Deaths

* May 29: George C. Homans