Roger Establet Polity (born 1938) is a French scholar of the

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, in 1959 he entered the école normale supérieure, where he earned degrees in philosophy and sociology. He often collaborates with Christian Baudelot, a sociologist at the

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. He was involved in Althusser's '' Reading Capital'' project.

Works

* ''L'École capitaliste en France'', 1970 (with Christian Baudelot) * ''Le niveau monte'' (with Christian Baudelot) * (with Christian Baudelot) ''Suicide: The Hidden Side of Modernity'' (2008).Review
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References

École Normale Supérieure alumni French sociologists 1938 births Living people Academic staff of the University of Provence French male writers {{France-sociologist-stub