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“... I have an idea, I must reject it, that is my method of trying it out,’ the philosopher Alain said, and that seems to be the precept they are both following. Mitterrand would always claim to be devoted to the principles of social justice, but he does not believe that the state can achieve everything. Chirac is determined to maintain the apparatus of ...”

“... identity of views or attitudes. Should we put together Françoise Sagan, Bernard-Henri Lévi and Alain Touraine, who are Left Bankers, and place them in opposition to Jean d’Ormesson, Jean-Marie Benoist and Edgar Morin, who are Right Bankers? Herbert Lottman has a lot to say about cafés and about their importance. He joins those who think that the ...”

“... which have passed many men of account in the social sciences in France: Aron, Lévi-Strauss, Alain Touraine, Pierre Bourdieu, Serge Moscovici ... In French, what is more, we do not talk of the ‘social sciences’ so much as the ‘human sciences’, which, simply on the lexical plane, establishes a bridge between the young sociology (for ...”

“... is to get beyond both, taking as his guides E.P. Thompson, Raymond Williams, Pierre Bourdieu and Alain Touraine. There is a strong dash of Marxism in his fountain of inspiration. In his scrutiny of the Sikh community, he stresses its diversity, as between urban and rural, higher and lower social or caste strata, and, very prominently, its two main ...”