Alain Touraine. Honorary Doctor

The June 19 was the investiture ceremony of honorary doctor of Alain Touraine. On the website you will also find a video-short, you can consult the transcript of the speeches and access in the book that was given to attendees and will have access to information previously invested Honorary Doctorates.

The University of Valparaiso in Chile invested Alain Touraine as an Honorary Doctor in 2004.

The website for the University of Chile, where Alain Touraine created the Centro de Investigación de Sociología del Trabajo.

In 2006, Alain Touraine was invested as an Honorary Doctor by the National University of Colombia.

Since 1780, when it was founded, it has convened leaders from the academic, business and government sectors to address the challenges facing global society. Its programmes, studies and publications bring together several subjects, such as Humanities, Art, Education, Science, Technology, Engineering, Global Security, and International Affairs. This association, formed by 4,900 fellows and 600 foreign honorary members, organizes meetings, debates, lectures and informal gatherings around the country, promoting projects and advising non-political initiatives.

This association's mission is to represent sociologists around the world; Alain Touraine was vice-president from 1974 to 1978.

Centre founded by Alain Touraine in 1981, where he was Director until 1993.

A public scientific research body where Alain Touraine was in charge of research from 1950 to 1958.

In 1960, Alain Touraine became a researcher at Paris's École Practique des Hautes Études where he founded the Centre d'Analyse et d'Intervention Sociologiques (CADIS).

A French postgraduate college in Paris. It was founded in 1947, and has been independent since 1975. Alain Touraine has been Director of this college which focuses on research and training researchers in sociology, among other areas.