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Alain Touraine

1925 - 2023

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Alain Touraine (French: [alɛ̃ tuʁɛn]; 3 August 1925 – 9 June 2023) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alain Touraine is the 20th most popular sociologist (down from 19th in 2019), the 1,182nd most popular biography from France (down from 977th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Sociologist.

Alain Touraine is most famous for his work with the sociology of knowledge. He is also known for his work on social movements and the sociology of work.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Alain Touraine ranks 20 out of 79. Before him are Immanuel Wallerstein, Niklas Luhmann, Gabriel Tarde, Manuel Castells, Seymour Martin Lipset, and Pitirim Sorokin. After him are C. Wright Mills, Paul Lazarsfeld, Robert Michels, Peter L. Berger, Saskia Sassen, and Ziya Gökalp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Alain Touraine ranks 79. Before him are Tom Gehrels, John Pople, John Cocke, Celia Cruz, József Bozsik, and Claude Lanzmann. After him are Michele Ferrero, Veljko Kadijević, Masanori Tokita, Oscar Peterson, Robert Rauschenberg, and Paul Greengard. Among people deceased in 2023, Alain Touraine ranks 64. Before him are László Sólyom, David McCallum, Cormac McCarthy, Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Charlie Munger, and Tom Wilkinson. After him are Harry Markowitz, Matthew Perry, Dubravka Ugrešić, Milan Milutinović, Mark Margolis, and William Friedkin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alain Touraine ranks 1,182 out of 6,770. Before him are Nicolas Chamfort (1741), Clément Marot (1495), Émile Gallé (1846), Jean Todt (1946), Alice Guy-Blaché (1873), and Richard III, Duke of Normandy (1001). After him are Madeleine de Scudéry (1607), Jean Gerson (1363), Robert de Sorbon (1201), Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827), Jean Gaston Darboux (1842), and Robert I, Count of Artois (1216).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In France

Among sociologists born in France, Alain Touraine ranks 5. Before him are Émile Durkheim (1858), Pierre Bourdieu (1930), Marcel Mauss (1872), and Gabriel Tarde (1843). After him are Marcel Granet (1884), Henri Hubert (1872), and Loïc Wacquant (1960).

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