Alain Touraine

Professor Alain Touraine from the Centre d’Analyse et d’Intervention Sociologiques in Paris is one of the most influential and prestigious social thinkers in Europe. The current content and significance of his work arouses interest worldwide. After a first stage of theoretical sociology and a second of regional sociology, Professor Touraine has developed a reflection of social and political philosophy of the highest interest.
Click here to view Professor Touraine’s official webpage at CADIS (Centre d’analyse et d’intervention sociologiques) in Paris.

Programme

LOS DESAFÍOS DE LA DEMOCRACIA

From June 8th to 12th, 1998

 

  1. Lo global y lo local
  2. La caída de las normas sociales
  3. La tentación postmoderna
  4. ¿Qué es democracia?
  5. Liberales y comunitariosLink to an email address
  6. La idea de Sujeto
  7. La intervención de las mujeres
  8. Las minorías
  9. La crisis del Welfare State
  10. Debates sobre la educación (debat posterior)

 

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Videos

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Invited specialist

By indication of Prof. Holz, the Prof. Ivon Le Bot (CNRS, París) was also invited to participate.

Conference of Prof. Le Bot: Autonomy and globalization, on Tuesday the 11th, at 4 pm.

Other activities

Prof. Alain Touraine gave a lecture entitled The End of the Liberal Transition, on Tuesday, June 11th, at the Centre Cultural La Mercè in Girona.