IA left-wing intellectual, but with an increasingly liberal tendency, Touraine was a meticulous chronicler of social changes in France from the 1950s onwards and also a scholar of the Chilean working class.
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He was the widower of Chilean researcher Adriana Arenas Pizarro, who died in 1990.
Born in Hermanville-sur-Mer (northwest) on August 3, 1925, he studied History.
Although he came from a noble family, in his youth he was very interested in the world of workers and even worked briefly in a mine, an experience that later helped him write one of his first studies, about miners in Chile.
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He worked as a researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) between 1950 and 1958. In 1956 he was one of the creators of the Research Center in Sociology of Work at the University of Chile, where he met his wife.
The student and worker protests of May 1968 in France led him to expand his field of studies. That same year he published “The May Movement or Utopian Communism”.
The following year, like other experts, he predicted the arrival of the “Post-industrial Society” and became interested in feminism or regionalist movements in France.
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In 1973, after the coup d'état, he published “Vida e Morte do Chile Popular”.
He did not stop looking at Latin America, as he evolved towards more liberal positions.
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🗞️ Public: Alain Touraine, a French giant of Sociology, has died
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