School of the high studies in social sciences

Created by decree in 1975, the School of the high studies in social sciences (or EHESS ) is one of the great establishments French having for mission the Higher education and the Recherche.

It is resulting from the autonomisation of the Life Section of the practical École of the high studies. It has the role research and the formation with research in the field of the social sciences: the History, the Sociology, the economy, the Anthropology, the Demography, the Geography, the Archeology, the Psychology, the Linguistic , the Philosophy, the Right, Mathematical.

History

Institution

It is with an initiative of the Fondation Rockefeller, eager to support within the framework of the rebuilding of France of the post-war period of the sociological studies far away from the Marxism, which one owes creation in 1947 of the Life section of the practical École of the high studies. Directed by the historian Lucien Febvre, then preferred to Georges Gurvitch, great figure of the sociology of the time, this institution was going to be one of the centers of the intense reflection sociological of the Sixties, around François Furet or of Fernand Braudel.

Fernand Braudel which succeeds Febvre, installs into 1962 the various research teams disseminated in the Latin Quarter in the current buildings of the Maison of the social sciences of the Boulevard Raspail, grace in particular to a financing of the Fondation Ford.

In 1975, the Life Section émancipe administratively of the School is practiced and become the School of the high studies in social sciences equipped with a statute university and entitled to deliver diplomas. It shelters from now on a pleiad of research centres covering the whole of social sciences: history, sociology, economy, social psychology, anthropology, surfaces cultural.

In March 2006, within the framework of the Movement anti-CPE, the EHESS was occupied during several days by a hundred people more or less close to the autonomous mobility. The direction of the school called upon the police force to make evacuate the occupants and insisted on the importance of the damage caused at the time of this occupation. This episode put at the great day the existing gap between the researchers and various elements of the Social movement associated with the dispute of the CPE. As a whole, the media especially insisted on the overflows which have occurred during this occupation, by largely eluding its political contents. Some of the occupants of the EHESS indeed expressed on this occasion of the sets of themes concerned with the revolutionary speech , the Anarchisme, or the decrease. Thereafter, several researchers of the EHESS took these events, their actors and the forms of their expression, for object of study. Whereas the French intellectuals had joined in May 1968 with the revolutionary movement, the occupation of March 2006 seems to be remained an incomprehensible event for the researchers of Ecole.

Activities

History: economies, companies and civilizations

Lucien Febvre and Fernand Braudel resulted from the École of the '' Annales '', current dominating the French history in the inter-war period, but disputed by the rise of the social sciences and incipient structuralism. Under criticisms of Claude Lévi-Strauss in particular, they will integrate the new contributions of sociology and the ethnology into the long, not-event-driven history already put at the honor by annals, until preaching the concept of “ a history whose passage is almost unperceivable ”. It was reproached to them, as well as with structuralist, to deny the policy and the influence of the man on his destiny at the time when were held the wars of colonial emancipation.

Work of Braudel, Roy Ladurie and other historians who surround them will have a great influence in the research and the official teaching of the history as from the years 1960. Work of Jean-Marie Pesez will contribute to renovate the problems and the methodology of the Medieval archeology, and to make emerge in France the concept of material Culture.

New History, mentalities and the return of the ethnologist

While diversify the activities of what became one of the most prestigious places of teaching and research in social sciences in France, the EHESS is during the years 1970 the seat of the Nouvelle History, attentive with the evolution of mentalities promoted by the historians Jacques Le Goff and Pierre Nora.

During this time, with Georges Balandier then Marc Trough, a generation of critical ethnologists heirs to the French colonial tradition founds the modern sociology of the Third World countries before applying the methods of anthropology to the study of their companies of origin.

Sociology

Pierre Bourdieu exerted there long years like at the Collège de France. Today, one counts Robert Castel and Alain Touraine there, since long time, like Luc Boltanski, to quote only these two examples.

Schooling

Since the Reform LMD, the École of the high studies in social sciences accommodates students starting from the course of Master. To be allowed in the establishment, the titular candidate of a license in social sciences must above all be sponsored by one of the research directors. The School also offers a course sanctioned by its specific diploma giving access to the doctoral studies and the contests of the public office (Capes and aggregation in particular). The school accommodates 2.800 students and more than 200 theses are per annum constant there.

Some members of the EHESS last and present

Some former students

Juan Agulló Spanish Latino-americanist
Paulo César Ribeiro Gums, artista plástico, professor universitário
Frank Attar Specialist in the international relations
Philippe Baumard
Jean-Yves Camus
Andre Célarié, journalist and father of Clementine Célarié
Philippe Corcuff
Jacques Dassié
Aïssa Dermouche
Braced Espírito Santo, sociologist, professor at the New University of Lisbon - Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Nathalie Heinich
Bruno Jaffré
Christian Geffray
Marc Lazar
Louis Maitrier
Sabrina Malek Director
Jose Manuel Lopez Lopez
Ignacio Ramonet, director of the diplomatic World
Alain Soral
Bernard Stiegler
Lygia Araujo Watanabe, Professor of philosophy, University of São-Paulo Brazil

Research centres of the EHESS

History

Center Alexandre-Koyré Histoire of sciences and technology
Center of European religious anthropology
Center of Files of Philosophy, History and Edition of Sciences
Center of Jewish studies
Center of history and archeology of the Christian and Moslem worlds medieval
Center of history and theory of arts (CHTA)
Research center histories
social and political Studies of the populations, social protection and health
historical Group of anthropology of the medieval Occident (GAHOM)
Center of European Religious anthropology (CARE)
Group of anthropology scholastic
Group of archeology medieval
Group of Hispanic studies
Group of search for Armenian history " Currencies, networks, politique"
Group of interdisciplinary research on the history of the arts person
Group of research on the contemporary intellectual life
historical Laboratory of demography
Research center policies Raymond Aron
Louis-Gernet Center of research compared on the companies old
urban Studies
Group of social geography
History, temporalities, turbulences (interdisciplinary research program)
Laboratory of anthropology and history of the institution of culture (LAHIC)
Laboratory of visual history contemporaine

interdisciplinary Institute of anthropology of the contemporary (IIAC), resulting from the CAMC, gathers since 2007 the CETSAH, the LAHIC and the LAIOS

Sociology, psychology, social anthropology

Anthropology and linguistics (research program interdisciplinary)
Biology and company (research program interdisciplinary)
Center of sociological analysis and intervention
Center of anthropology of the contemporary worlds
Center of study of the social movements
Center of study of the legal standards
Center of interdisciplinary studies of the religious facts
Center of studies transdisciplinaires sociology, anthropology, history (CETSAH)
theoretical Center of linguistics
Research center medicine, sciences, health and company
Research center on health, the social one and the policy
Research center on arts and the language
Center of sociology of work and arts
Center of European Sociology
Quetelet Center the new French center for the data in social sciences (mixed unit of service)
imaginary and social functions Team of arts and the literatures
Genesis and transformation of the social worlds
Group of research training and context
Group of research on the knowledge
Group of research on Europe
Group of political and moral sociology
Group of pragmatic and reflexive sociology method and
Institute Jean-Nicod
Analysis laboratory secondary applied to sociology - Institute of the longitudinal one
Laboratory of social anthropology
Laboratory of anthropology of the institutions and organization (LAIOS)
Laboratory of social psychology and psychology of the action
Laboratory of cognitive sciences and psycholinguistics
Laboratory of social sciences
Medicine, health and social sciences (research program interdisciplinary)
Sociology, history, anthropology of dynamic cultural the

Cultural surfaces

Americas

Center of North-American studies
Research center on prehispanic America
Research center on contemporary Brazil
Research center on the American worlds Empires, companies, nations, Latin America and the Western Mediterranean, xve-xxe century

Africa

Center of African studies

Europe and Mediterranean world

Center of studies Byzantine, néo-Hellenic and south-eastern European
Center of studies of the Russian, Soviet world and post-Soviet
Center of Portuguese studies
Center of history of the Turkish field
Center of social history of Mediterranean Islam
Research center interdisciplinary on Germany
Group of research on the Central and Eastern Europe
Institute of studies of the Islam and the companies of the Muslim world
To reconsider the history of Europe (research program interdisciplinary)

Asia

Center of studies of India and the South Asia
Center of studies on modern and contemporary China
Research center linguistics on Eastern Asia
Research center on Korea
Research center on Japan
Group of studies insulindiennes

Oceania

Research center and of documentation on Oceania

Arctic

Center of Arctic studies

Economy

Center of social analysis and mathematics
Center of studies of the modes of industrialization
international Center of research on the environment and the development
Team of epistemology of the models semiotics and cognitive
Group of research in mathematical and quantitative economy
Grouping of research in quantitative saving in Aix-Marseilles
Institute of Public Economy
Laboratory of téléanalyse, space and company
Paris-Jourdan Economic scenes

External bonds

Official site of the EHESS
Removal for the re-entry 2008: New buildings
Report on the occupation of March 2006 in documentary of France Culture (47e minute)

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