The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1980s.
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
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)
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.
November 19: Erving Goffman
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.
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For music from a year in the 1980s, go to 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 This article includes an overview of the famous events and trends in popular music in the 1980s. The 1980s saw the emergence of electronic dance music and new wave, also known as Modern Rock. As disco fell out of fashion in the decade's early years, genres such as post-disco, Italo disco, Euro disco, and dance-pop became more popular. Rock music continued to enjoy a wide audience.
This article is a summary of the 1980s in science and technology. The Rings of Neptune were first discovered in 1984. The Voyager 2 spacecraft provided images of them in 1989. 4769 Castalia was discovered in 1989. It became the first asteroid to be viewed through radar imaging. The first exoplanet is discovered in 1988, though it was not confirmed until much later. Genetic engineering timeline 1983 Kary Mullis revolutionized molecular biology with his invention of the polymerase chain reaction, which required only a test tube, some reagents, a DNA template, and a source of heat.
Timeline of anthropology, 1980–1989 1984 "Turkana Boy" is discovered 1986 The Human Genome Project is launched 1989 The National Museum of the American Indian is founded in the U.S. 1980 Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali, by Clifford Geertz The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America, by Michael Taussig 1981 In Vain I Tried To Tell You: Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics, by Dell Hymes Nisa: The Life and Words of a Kung Woman, by Marjorie Shostak 1982 Europe and the People Without History by Eric Wolf 1983 Local Knowledge: further essays in interpretive anthropology by Clifford Geertz 1984 Muelos: A Stone Age Superstition about Sexuality, by Weston La Barre 1985 Sweetness And Power : The Place Of Sugar In Modern History, by Sidney Mintz 1986 Writing Culture, ed.