Jean Peneff

Jean Peneff is a French sociologist who successively taught with Paris 8, at the department of sociology of the Université of Algiers, with the Université of Nantes and which finished its career of teacher to the Université of Provence (Aix-en-Provence).

At the beginning of its career, he is the pupil of Pierre Bourdieu, of which he will be detached in his return from Algiers to go on the other side of the Atlantic to draw his sociological inspiration near the heirs to the École of Chicago. He will know Everett Hughes and becomes friendly with Howard Becker near which he is familiarized with the methods of the Interactionnisme symbolic system that he will then return to teach in France.

He is one of those which will have contributed to make known in France the empirical methods developped at the point by holding of the School of Chicago. He teaches them with his students and incite them to put them to the test on grounds as various as the world of boxing, the people travellers, the disadvantaged districts, the world of the diplomats, the political parties, rural world etc

Its studies of the Algerian industrial world by the observation of its heads of undertakings give place to a series of articles published in France and to the the United States of America, like in 1981 with a work published by CNRS and entitled Industriels Algerian .

It is better known for the use, in a step hyper-skeptic, which it makes of the biographical Méthode. What he will write in the method Biographique , Armand Colin, 1990. This method which it describes is the fruit many investigations auprès in particular of trade unionists, working militants and teachers of the public school and private school.

The most recent part and most complete of its work relates to a study of very long life, in particular by the direct and participating Observation, in the medical world. In addition to a great number of articles and communication, it will publish three works on the question.

the hospital in urgency which is a kind of Monographie emergency services.

Sick of the urgencies which highlights selective character of this kind of gate of the hospital which the service of the urgencies represents. It shows there how are brought up to date the mechanisms of social relegation in an hospital service however famous to have to accommodate " all the misery of the monde".

But its major work is certainly sick France of its doctors , published in 2005 at the Hinderers to think in round, which represents, under the sociological angle, a true committal for trial of the medical professional body and system of Social security French.

Some studies not published are available on the site: http://perso.orange.fr/peneff-medecine/

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