Alain Touraine

Alain Touraine (Hermanville-on-Sea, Apple-brandy, August 3rd 1925) is a sociologist French of the Social action and Nouveaux social movements.

Biography

Alain Touraine is arts doctor (1960), aggregate of History to the National university and graduate of EHESS, where he is currently Directeur of studies.

He is the father of two children of which Marisol Touraine, the socialist deputy of Indre-et-Loire.

Contribution in sociology

Following the crisis of May 68, he diagnoses the transition from a pure economic domination towards a cultural domination: the opposition between proletarians and middle-class man the opposition between those which have know-how and those would replace whose position in the media system ensures a broad influence. It was interested in the social movements of beginning of the year 70 (feminist, regionalistic movements…), and sought to know if these social demonstrations could be perceived like new social actors in fight against the elements of domination. He however never regarded these movements as being the fundamental actors of the post-industrial company.

He is divided between the actionnism in the direction where we have the capacity on the history, and the Déterminisme because we are determined by our laws and values.

Political commitment

He is member of the committee of sponsorship of the French Coordination for the Decade of the culture of peace and non-violence. According to the list arrétée at November 11th, 2003, he is member of the scientific Committee of orientation of the association founded by Michel Rocard and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, On the left in Europe.

Distinctions

foreign honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences
Member of the Academia Europeae

Honorary doctor

Alain Touraine is Honorary doctor of the French and foreign universities following:

EHESS
University of Cochabamba (1984),
University of Geneva (1988),
University of Montreal (1990),
University of Leuwen-the-New (1992),
University of Paz (1995),
University of Bologna (1995),
University of Mexico City (1996),
University of Santiago (1996),
University Laval (1997),
University of Córdoba (Argentinian, 2000),
University of Valparaiso (Chile, 2004),

price, decorations

Officer of the Legion of honor
Officer of the National order of the Merit

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