Raymond Boudon

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Raymond Boudon (born January 27, 1934 in Paris , † April 10, 2013 ) was a French sociologist and philosopher .

Life

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He was a professor at the University of Paris- Sorbonne (Paris IV).

science

Boudon represented methodological individualism , according to which social actions are traced back to the individual as a logical unit of sociological analysis. From the same perspective of explaining macro-sociological phenomena on the basis of microsociological models of action, he further developed the theory of rational decision-making .

Memberships

He was a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques , the Academia Europaea , the British Academy , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the International Academy for the Human Sciences of St Petersburg, the Royal Society of Canada , the Argentine Academy for the Social Sciences . In 1995 he received the Premio Amalfi .

Publications (selection)

  • La crise de la sociologie , 1971
  • L'Inégalité des chances , 1973
  • Education, Opportunity, and Social Inequality , 1974
  • Effets pervers et ordre social , 1977
  • La Logique du social , 1979. (German: The logic of social action , ISBN 3472751169 )
  • La Place du désordre , 1984
  • Dictionnaire critique de la sociologie , 1990
  • Déclin de la morale, déclin des valeurs , 2002
  • Tocqueville aujourd'hui , 2005
  • Renouveler la democratie: éloge du sens commun , 2006
  • The Origin of Values , 2001
  • The Poverty of Relativism , 2004

literature

  • Raymond Boudon: Limitations of Rational Choice Theory. In: The American Journal of Sociology Vol. 104, 1998, pp. 817-828
  • Raymond Boudon: Beyond Rational Choice Theory. In: Annual Review of Sociology Vol. 29, 2003, pp. 1-21
  • Jean-Michel Morin: Boudon, un sociologue classique. L'Harmattan, Paris, 2006.

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ^ Raymond Boudon: La logique du social. Introduction à l'analyse sociologique. Hachette Litterature. 1979. p. 61 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Boudon, Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Sorbonne
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 2013