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Après la crise

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Notre société, à l’heure de l’économie globale et de l’individualisme triomphant, a rompu avec le vieux modèle d’intégration qui avait été le nôtre depuis la révolution industrielle. Nous ne nous représentons plus nous-mêmes comme les acteurs d’un système économique autour duquel s’organiserait toute la vie sociale, mais principalement comme des sujets dotés de droits et créateurs de leur propre vie dans un univers à dominante culturelle. C’est ainsi que l’« acteur » agit de plus en plus indépendamment du « système ». La crise, en séparant encore davantage l’économie de la société, sous l’effet de l’autonomie croissante des logiques spéculatives et financières, est susceptible d’influer de deux façons sur cette tendance à long terme. Frappés par le choc économique et social, les acteurs peuvent, en effet, tout aussi bien subir une exclusion sociale croissante que voir s’accélérer la mutation culturelle inscrite dans le long terme. Bref, les années qui viennent hésiteront entre ce que Touraine appelle la « catastrophe » et la refondation. C’est à l’étude des facteurs qui pèseront dans un sens et dans l’autre qu’est consacré ce livre.

184 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

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Alain Touraine

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Alain Touraine 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 (see also Daniel Bertaux). He is best known for being the originator of the term "post-industrial society". His work is based on a "sociology of action," and believes that society shapes its future through structural mechanisms and its own social struggles. Touraine defined historicity as the capability of a society to take action upon itself, see The Self-Production of Society (1977).
His key interest for most of his career has been with social movements. He has studied and written extensively on workers' movements across the world, particularly in Latin America and more recently in Poland where he observed and aided the birth of Solidarnosc (Solidarity), see Solidarity: The Analysis of a Social Movement (1983). While in Poland, he developed the research method of "Sociological Intervention," which had been outlined in "The Voice and the Eye" (La Voix et le Regard) [1981].
Touraine has gained immense popularity in Latin America as well as in continental Europe. Yet he has failed to gain anywhere near the same recognition in the English-speaking world. Out of twenty or so books, only about half of them have been translated into English.
He participated in 1969 at MoMA's Universitas project organized by Argentine architect Emilio Ambasz. In 2010, he was jointly awarded, with Zygmunt Bauman, the Príncipe de Asturias Prize for Communication and the Humanities.

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