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7 unusual facts about Alain Touraine


Alain Touraine

He participated in 1969 at MoMA's Universitas project organized by Argentine architect Emilio Ambasz.

Michel Wieviorka

1996 (with Alain Touraine, François Dubet, Farhad Khosrokhavar, Didier Lapeyronnie): Le grand refus.

1978 (with Alain Touraine, François Dubet, Zsuzsa Hegedus): La prophétie antinucléaire.

A former student of Alain Touraine, he is now one of the most renowned sociologists and public intellectuals in France and abroad.

Wieviorka is the director of the Centre d'Analyses et d'Interventions Sociologique (CADIS) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, which was established by Alain Touraine in 1981.

Participatory action research

Touraine and others thus propose a ‘sociology of intervention’ involving the creation of artificial spaces for movement activists and non-activists to debate issues of public concern (Touraine et al., 1980; Dubet, 1991, 2001).

Renardism

Benard Francq proposed this interpretation inspired by Alain Touraine.



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