Raymond Boudon (27 January 1934 – 10 April 2013) was a sociologist, philosopher and Professor in the

Paris-Sorbonne University Paris-Sorbonne University (also known as Paris IV; french: Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV) was a public research university in Paris, France, active from 1971 to 2017. It was the main inheritor of the Faculty of Humanities of the Universit ...

Career

With Alain Touraine, Michel Crozier and

Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu (; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence ...

, Raymond Boudon is one of the leading French sociologists of the last quarter of the 20th century. He is known for his research on social mobility and inequality of opportunities as well as for his defense of

methodological individualism In the social sciences, methodological individualism is the principle that subjective individual motivation explains social phenomena, rather than class or group dynamics which are illusory or artificial and therefore cannot truly explain marke ...

. He was a member of many important institutions.

Académie des Sciences morales et politiques An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosop ...

, Academia Europaea, British Academy, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, International Academy of Human Sciences of St Petersburg, Central European Academy of Arts and Sciences. And a fellow at the

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) is an interdisciplinary research lab at Stanford University that offers a residential postdoctoral fellowship program for scientists and scholars studying "the five core social and ...

and an invited professor notably at Harvard,

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, and the Universities of

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, and Stockholm. A biographical study of him by Jean-Michel Morin was published in 2006.Morin, Jean-Michel (2006). ''Boudon, un sociologue classique''. ("Boudon, a classical sociologist"). Paris: L'Harmattan.

Selected publications

* ''The Uses of Structuralism'' (1971) * ''Education, Opportunity and Social Inequality'' (1974) * ''The Logic of Social Action'' (1981) * ''Theories of Social Change'' (1986) * ''The Analysis of Ideology'' (1989) * ''The Art of Self-Persuasion'' (1994) * ''The Origin of Values'' (2000)

Notes

References

*E. Di Nuoscio, "Le ragioni degli individui. L'individualismo metodologico di Raymond Boudon", Rubbettino, Roma 1996

External links

Raymond Boudon's profile at Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV)
École Normale Supérieure alumni Fellows of Nuffield College, Oxford Members of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques Members of Academia Europaea University of Paris faculty Harvard University staff 1934 births 2013 deaths French sociologists Commanders of the Ordre national du Mérite French male writers {{France-academic-bio-stub