1980s in sociology

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 ' 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.