Jean Cazeneuve (17 May 1915 – 4 October 2005) was a French sociologist and anthropologist. Apart from being a scholar, he has been involved with Radio and TV at the executive level; from 1964 till 1974 he has been president of the French public Radio and TV agency (
ORTF), after which he has been
chairman
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of
TF1
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TF1 is par ...
, the first French national-wide channel, till 1978. He joined the ''
Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques'' in 1973, of which became president in 1983.
He is highly regarded for his illuminating contribution to the study the
ritual clown
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s.
[Makarius, Laura (1970) ''Ritual Clowns and Symbolical Behaviour'' in Diogenes, March 1970 18: 44-73. Also collected i]
Diogenes Issues 69-72
pp.52-3 quotation:
Works
* ''La Psychologie du prisonnier de guerre'', 1944
* ''C'est mourir beaucoup'', 1944
* ''Psychologie de la joie'', 1952
''Les dieux dansent à Cibola: le Shalako des indiens zuñis'' 1957
* ''Les Rites et la condition humaine'', 1959
* ''La Philosophie médicale de Ravaisson'', 1959
* ''La Mentalité archaîque'', 1961
* ''Sociologie de la radio-télévision'', 1963
* ''Lucien Lévy-Bruhl'', 1963
* ''La Grande Chance de la télévision'', 1963
* ''Les Mythologies'', 1966
* ''Bonheur et civilisation'', 1966
* ''L'Ethnologie'', 1967
* ''Sociologie de Marcel Mauss'', 1968
* ''Les Pouvoirs de la télévision'', 1970
* ''La Sociologie'', 1970
* ''Guide de l'étudiant en sociologie'', 1971
''Sociologie du rite (tabou, magie, sacré)'' 1971
* ''La Société de l’ubiquité'', 1972
* ''L'Homme téléspectateur'', 1974
* ''La Sociologie et les sciences de la société'', 1974
* ''Les Communications de masse'', 1976
* ''Dix grandes notions de la sociologie'', 1976
* ''Aimer la vie'', 1977
* ''Des métiers pour un sociologue'', 1978
* ''La Raison d’être'', 1981
* ''La Vie dans la société moderne'', 1982
* ''Le Mot pour rire'', 1983
* ''Histoire des dieux, des sociétés et des hommes'', 1985
* ''De l’optimisme'', 1987
* ''Les Hasards d’une vie, des primitifs aux téléspectateurs'', 1989
* ''Et si plus rien n’était sacré'', 1991
* ''La Télévision en sept procès'', 1992
* ''La Personne et la société'', 1995
* ''Du calembour, du mot d’esprit'', 1996
* ''L'Avenir de la morale'', 1998
* ''Les Roses de la vie. Variations sur la joie et le bonheur'', 1999
References
People from Ussel
École Normale Supérieure alumni
French sociologists
Sociologists of science
French mass media scholars
French television executives
Members of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques
Winners of the Prix Broquette-Gonin (literature)
1915 births
2005 deaths
French male writers
Harvard University alumni
20th-century French male writers
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