A central figure on the French and international intellectual scene, sociologist Alain Touraine died in Paris on the morning of Friday, June 9, announced his daughter, former Socialist minister ...

Alain Touraine was four years my junior, so he could not have belonged to the generation of the French Resistance. A student at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), he was deeply influenced by Georges ...

MADRID – MADRID (AP) — Sociologists Zygmunt Bauman and Alain Touraine have been awarded Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias Communication and Humanities award for their contributions to modern ...

French sociologist and research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Alain Touraine is the author of about fourty works. He has published in the UNESCO Courier a series of ...