Birthday
1925-08-03
Deathday
2023-06-09
Place of Birth
Hermanville-sur-mer, Calvados, France

Alain Touraine

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Alain Touraine (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 an internationally-renowned sociologist of social movements, particularly the May 68 student movement in France and the Solidarity trade-union movement in communist Poland. Touraine completed his khâgne (preparatory school) at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, and entered the...

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