Alain Touraine was a French sociologist. He was research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux.
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Gerhard Ludwig MüllerAlso won honorary doctorate from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Albert O. HirschmanAlso won Silvert Award
Pál SchmittAlso won Commander of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
André BrinkAlso won Honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Louvain
Pierre RosanvallonAlso won honorary degree of HEC ParisAbout this person
Alain Touraine was a French sociologist. He was research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux. Touraine was an important figure in the founding of French sociology of work after World War II and later became a sociologist of social movements, particularly the May 68 student movement in France and the Solidarity trade-union movement in communist Poland.
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Lived 1925 to 2023 · aged 97
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