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

Career

With

Alain Touraine Alain Touraine (; born 3 August 1925) is a French sociologist. He is research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the ''Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux''. Touraine was an important figure in ...

, Michel Crozier and Pierre Bourdieu, 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 education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...

, 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 Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher l ...

, Oxford University, and the Universities of Geneva, Chicago, 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