1980s in sociology

• 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 == References ==