Alain Gras is professor of Sociologie and Anthropologie of the Technique S with the Sorbonne (Paris I).

Principal publications

• Swedish Academics: dispute and conformism in a intellectual elite . Do Paris, Hatchet, 1973

• education have a future? (with B.J Hake and Al). Burxelles, JEB, Munich, Koze Verlag, 1975.
• Fururologie , Paris, Seghers, 1976
• Sociology of the ruptures: the traps of time in social sciences , Paris, PUF, 1979
• Sweden and its populations (with R.Sotto), Brussels, Complexes, 1981
• the Pilot, the Controller and the Automat (with C.Moricot, S.L Poirot-Delpech and V.Scardigli), Paris, ED. iris, 1991
• Vis-a-vis the automat: the pilot, the controller and the engineer (with C.Moricot, S.L Poirot-Delpech and V.Scardigli), Paris, Publications of Sorbonne, 1994
• Size and Dépendance , Paris, PUF, 1993, Turin, UTET, 1997
• technical Macro-systems , Paris, PUF, 1997
• Brittleness of the power - to release from the technological influence , Beech 2003
• the Choice of Fire - At the origins of the climatic crisis , Beech 2007