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Alain Touraine ( French pronunciation: [alɛ̃ tuʁɛn]; 3 August 1925 – 9 June 2023) was a French sociologist. He was research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux.
Jun 9, 2023 · A central figure on the French and international intellectual scene, sociologist Alain Touraine died in Paris on the morning of Friday, June 9, announced his daughter, former Socialist minister...
Alain Touraine, né le 3 août 1925 à Hermanville-sur-Mer et mort le 9 juin 2023 à Paris [1], est un sociologue français de l'action sociale et des nouveaux mouvements sociaux, directeur d'études à l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales.
Alain Touraine (born 1925) was a French sociologist. He was best known as the originator of the phrase "post-industrial society" and for his studies and theories of social movements while they were in the process of formation.
Alain Touraine. (b. 1925) Quick Reference. (1925–) Frenchpost-Marxist sociologist with a strong interest in social movements and the possibility of people-led politics.
From the beginning of his career Alain Touraine tried to develop a heterodox sociological terminology which promised to open up new ways of thinking about the dynamics of modern societies.
Jun 13, 2023 · Alain Touraine – Touraine to his friends, who rarely called him by his first name, even by those who were very close to him – was a powerful and sensitive mind, imaginative and constructive as...
Jun 12, 2023 · French sociologist Alain Touraine, who worked extensively on issues around labor, feminism, and capitalism in France and abroad, died in Paris on June 9. Philosopher and sociologist of the...
French sociologist and research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Alain Touraine is the author of about fourty works. He has published in the UNESCO Courier a series of articles that we invite you te read.
Born in Hermanville-sur-Mer in 1925, Alain Touraine went on to become one of France’s key sociological theorists. Having studied history and philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure, he went to Harvard in the 1950s and had been a visiting professor at a number of US universities even before he earned his doctorate in 1965.
