At the age of 97 died last night the sociologist Alain Touraine, director of studies at the Ecole des hautes études en Sciences sociales Author of many works on social issues, he was one of the most important and well-known intellectuals
of the French left, and was also appreciated on the right. From the post-war period onwards, he analyzed and described the changes that affected society. She studied the condition of the workers and, from May 1968, the new social movements that rose to prominence, the students, feminism. In addition to France, he taught in the United States, Canada and Latin America: he was in Chile in 1973 and told the rise and fall of the socialist government of Salvador Allende.
The sociologist French Alain Touraine has died
2023-06-09T10:01:24.230Z
Highlights: Alain Touraine was director of studies at the Ecole des hautes études en Sciences sociales. He was one of the most important and well-known intellectuals of the French left. From the post-war period onwards he devoted himself to the study of the condition of workers and social movements. In addition to France, he taught in the United States, Canada and Latin America. He told the rise and fall of the socialist government of Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973.
He was 97. From the post-war period onwards he devoted himself to the study of the condition of workers and social movements.
Source: rainews