Alain touraine pdf

May 12, 2014 - Unlike alternative approaches, new social movement. (NSM) theory and in particular the work of Alain Touraine, was forged out of a specific episode of social ALAIN TOURAINE'S. SOCIOLOGY OF THE. SUBJECT. Kevin McDonald. Alain T'ouraine is perhaps best known as a sociologist of postindustrial so- ciety and Jul 2, 2008 - (1925–)Frenchpost-Marxist sociologist with a strong interest in social movements and the possibility of people-led politics. Born in the wealthy seaside resort Alain Touraine is one of the leading proponents of &dquo;action sociology&dquo;, a method of sociological intervention in society. With Sociologie de lhction. Touraine was then pessimistic about the potential for social movement action in communist societies. There he argued that, while working-class struggles and. This article exposes the developments of qualitative methodology in French soci- ology with respect to methods proposed by Pierre Bourdieu and Alain Touraine Le retour de l'acteur, Paris, Fayard, 1984. Critique de la modernite, Paris, Fayard, 1992. LIVRES Alain Touraine, CritiqueAlain Touraine is a French sociologist. He is research director at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Create a book · Download as PDF · Printable version