Raymond Boudon facts for kids
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Raymond Boudon
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| Born | 27 January 1934 Paris, France
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| Died | 10 April 2013 (aged 79) Paris, France
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| Nationality | French |
Raymond Boudon (born January 27, 1934, died April 10, 2013) was a famous French sociologist and philosopher. He was also a professor at the Paris-Sorbonne University.
Who Was Raymond Boudon?
Raymond Boudon was a very important French sociologist. He lived in the late 1900s. He worked alongside other famous French thinkers like Alain Touraine and Pierre Bourdieu.
Boudon was known for studying how people move up or down in society. This is called social mobility. He also looked at why some people have fewer chances in life than others. This is known as inequality of opportunities.
He also believed in something called methodological individualism. This idea suggests that to understand big social events, you need to look at the choices and actions of individual people.
His Important Work
Raymond Boudon was part of many important groups and academies. These included the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques in France. He was also a member of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He was a visiting professor at many top universities around the world. These included Harvard University and Oxford University. He also taught at universities in Geneva, Chicago, and Stockholm.
A book about his life and work was written by Jean-Michel Morin in 2006.
Books by Raymond Boudon
Here are some of the books Raymond Boudon wrote:
- The Uses of Structuralism (1971)
- Education, Opportunity and Social Inequality (1974)
- The Logic of Social Action (1981)
- Theories of Social Change (1986)
- The Analysis of Ideology (1989)
- The Art of Self-Persuasion (1994)
- The Origin of Values (2000)
See also
In Spanish: Raymond Boudon para niños
