Alain Touraine

Alain Touraine (2004)

Alain Touraine (born August 3, 1925 in Hermanville-sur-Mer ) is a French sociologist . His focus is on the sociology of work and development as well as on the study of social movements . Among other things, he coined the term post-industrial society .

Life

In 1956 Touraine founded the Center for Labor and Worker Studies at the University of Chile, and in 1958 a working group on industrial sociology in Paris . This later became the center for studying social change . He later founded other centers, such as the Center for Sociological Analysis and Intervention (Center d'Analyse et d'Intervention Sociologiques, CADIS for short) in 1981. In 1995 he received the Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea , in 1998 the Premio Amalfi . In 2010, he and Zygmunt Bauman were honored with the Prince of Asturias Prize in the Communication and Human Sciences category. In 1990 he was elected a full member of the Academia Europaea. He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1994 and of the Academia Brasileira de Letras since 1998 . He is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and was director of studies at the Paris École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS).

Touraine is the author of over 20 books.

Works (selection)

• Sociologie de l'action. 1965.
• La société post-industrial. 1969
• Production de la société. 1973.
• Le retour de l'acteur. 1984.
• Critique de la modernité. 1992.
• Qu'est-ce que la democratie? 1994.
• Pourrons-nous vivre ensemble? Égaux et différents. 1997.

Interviews

• Explosion possible. A new 68? Are you kidding me? Are you serious when you say that! The protests in France are not a sign of political hope, but of fear of the future, says sociologist Alain Touraine . In: The time . No. 13, 2006.
• Turn away from capitalism . In: FAZ . March 29, 2006.

items

• Praise to civil society . In: The time . No. 49, 1999

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Alain Touraine: The post-industrial society. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-518-06370-7 .
2. ^ Directory of members: Alain Touraine. Academia Europaea, accessed on September 27, 2017 (English, with biographical and other information). 

Web links

• Literature by and about Alain Touraine in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short Biography Alain Touraine (English) ( Memento of 24 April 2012 at the Internet Archive )