1980s in sociology
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The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1980s.
Other topics in 1980s:
1980
- Raymond Boudon's Crisis in sociology : problems of sociological epistemology is published.[1][2]
- William Catton's Overshoot is published.[3][4]
- Michel Foucault's Power/Knowledge is published.[5][6]
- Richard Sennett's Authority is published.[7][8]
- Immanuel Wallerstein's The Modern World-System (volume 2): Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600-1750[9][10]
1981
- Raymond Boudon's Logic of social action : an introduction to sociological analysis is published.[11][12]
- Andre Gunder Frank's Crisis in the third world is published.[13][14]
- Erving Goffman's Forms of Talk is published.[15][16]
- Jürgen Habermas's The Theory of Communicative Action is published.[17][18]
- Thomas Humphrey Marshall's The Right of Welfare and Other Essays is published.[19][20]
- Leslie George Scarman's Brixton disorders 10–12 April 1981 : report of an enquiry is published.[21][22]
- Alain Touraine's La Voix et le Regard is published.[23][24]
- Michel Wieviorka establishes the Centre d'Analyses et d'Interventions Sociologique (CADIS)[25]
1982
- Raymond Boudon's and François Bourricaud's Dictionnaire critique de la sociologie is published.[26][27]
- Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies' The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in 70s Britain is published.[28][29]
- Colin Crouch's Trade unions: the logic of collective action is published.[30][31]
- Andre Gunder Frank's Dynamics of the Global Crisis is published.[32][33]
- Edmund Leach's Social Anthropology is published.[34][35]
- Doug McAdam's Political Process and the Development of the Black Insurgency 1930-1970 is published.[36][37]
- Ralph Miliband's Capitalist Democracy in Britain is published.[38][39]
- Karl Popper's Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics is published.[40][41]
- Rosalind H. Williams' Dream Worlds is published.[42][43]
- Erving Goffman serves as president of the American Sociological Association.[44]
Deaths
- November 19: Erving Goffman[44]
1983
- Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities is published.[45][46]
- Raymond Aron's Clausewitz is published.[47][48]
- Ernest Gellner's Nations and Nationalism is published.[49][50]
- Ian Hacking's Representing and Intervening is published.[51][52]
- Sandra Harding's and Merrill B. Hintikka's (eds.) Discovering Reality is published.[53][54]
- Sal Restivo's The Social Relations of Physics, Mysticism, and Mathematics is published[55][56]
- Morris Janowitz's The Reconstruction of Patriotism is published.[57][58]
- Jean-François Lyotard's The Differend is published.[59][60]
- Ralph Miliband's Class, Power and State Power is published.[61][62]
- Jean-Luc Nancy's La communauté désoeuvrée is published.[63][64]
- Jean-Luc Nancy's L'Impératif catégorique is published.[65][66]
- Alain Touraine's Solidarity: The Analysis of a Social Movement is published.[67][68]
- Michael Young's Social scientist as innovator is published.[69][70]
- Alice S. Rossi serves as president of the ASA.[71]
Deaths
- October 17: Raymond Aron[72]
1984
- Anthony Giddens' The Constitution of Society[73][74]
- Christopher Lasch's The Minimal Self is published.[75][76]
- Charles Murray's Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 is published.[77][78]
- Michael Piore's & Charles Sabel's Second industrial divide: possibilities for prosperity is published.[79][80]
- Roy Wallis' The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life is published.[81][82]
1985
- James S. Coleman's Becoming Adult in a Changing Society is published.[83][84]
- Ernest Gellner's The Psychoanalytic Movement is published.[85][86]
- David Harvey's Consciousness and the Urban Experience is published.[87][88]
- Michel Maffesoli's Shadow of Dionysus is published.[89][90]
- Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death is published.[91][92]
- Jeffrey Weeks' Sexuality and its Discontents is published.[93][94]
- Viviana Zelizer's Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children is published.[95][96]
1986
- Jean Baudrillard's America is published.[97][98]
- Ulrich Beck's Risk Society is published.[99][100]
- Raymond Boudon's Theories of social change : a critical appraisal is published.[101][102]
- Fei Xiaotong and others' Small Towns in China: Functions, Problems & Prospects is published.[103][104]
- Amos Hawley's Human Ecology is published.[105][106]
- Gilbert Lewis' Concepts of Health and Illness in a Sepik Society is published.[107][108]
- Michael Mann's Sources of Social Power (volume 1) is published.[109][110]
1987
- James Coleman's Public and Private High Schools is published.[111][112]
- Sandra Harding's Feminism and Methodology is published.[113][114]
- Sandra Harding's and Jean F O'Barr's Sex and Scientific Inquiry is published.[115][116]
- George Homans' Certainties and Doubts is published.[117][118]
- Paul Gilroy's There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack is published.[119][120]
- Scott Lash's and John Urry's The End of organized capitalism is published.[121][122]
- The European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences gives its first award to Norbert Elias for his Society of Individuals.[123]
1988
- Stanley Aronowitz's Science as Power is published.[124][125]
- John Bowlby's A Secure Base is published.[126]
- Frances Fox Piven's and Richard Cloward's Why Americans Don't Vote is published.[127][128]
- Dick Hobbs' Doing the Business is published.[129][130]
- Michel Maffesoli's The Time of the Tribes: The Decline of Individualism in Mass Society is published.[131]
- Andrew W. Metcalfe's For freedom and dignity : historical agency and class structures in the coalfields of NSW is published.[132][133]
- Serge Moscovici's La machine à faire des dieux is published and wins the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences.[134][135][136]
- Tom Schuller's and Michael Young's [ed.] Rhythms of society is published.[137][138]
- Michel Wieviorka's Society and terrorism is published and wins the Bulzoni Editore Special Award.[139][140][141]
- Herbert J. Gans serves as president of the American Sociological Association.[142]
1989
- Zygmunt Bauman's Modernity and the Holocaust is published and wins the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences.[143][144][145]
- Thomas Bottomore's and Robert Brym's (ed.) The Capitalist Class is published.[146][147]
- Raymond Boudon's Analysis of ideology is published.[148][149]
- Ralph Miliband's Class Struggle in Contemporary Capitalism is published.[150][151]
- Immanuel Wallerstein's The Modern World-System (all volumes) are published.[152][153]
- Joan Huber serves as president of the ASA.[154]
Deaths
- May 29: George C. Homans[155]