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Alain Touraine

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Alain Touraine is a French sociologist. He is 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.

Books

Demokrasi Nedir?
Demokrasi Nedir?
Alain Touraine
The Post-industrial Society
The Post-industrial Society
Alain Touraine
What Is Democracy?
What Is Democracy?
Alain Touraine
Alain Touraine, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Alfred Willener, Claude Durand-Prinborgne, Daniel Pécaut
Workers' Attitudes to Technical Change, an Integrated Survey of Research
by Alain Touraine, in collaboration with Claude Durand, Daniel Pecaut [and] Alfred Willener
Workers' Attitudes to Technical Change, an Integrated Survey of Research
Alain Touraine, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Alfred Willener, Claude Durand-Prinborgne, Daniel Pécaut
What Is Democracy?
What Is Democracy?
Alain Touraine
Can We Live Together?
Can We Live Together?
David Macey, Alain Touraine
After the Crisis
After the Crisis
Alain Touraine
The May Movement
The May Movement
Alain Touraine
Facing the Future
Facing the Future
Alain Touraine
Après la crise
Après la crise
Alain Touraine

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