Alain Touraine

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Alain Touraine
Born	(1925-08-03)3 August 1925 Hermanville-sur-Mer, France
Died	9 June 2023(2023-06-09) (aged 97) Paris, France
Education	Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Alma mater	École normale supérieure University of Paris
Occupation	Sociologist
Employer	School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
Spouse	Adriana Arenas
Relatives	Marisol Touraine (daughter)

Alain Touraine (French pronunciation: [alɛ̃ tuʁɛn]; 3 August 1925 – 9 June 2023) was a French sociologist. He was research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux. Touraine was an important figure in the founding of French sociology of work after World War II and later became an internationally-renowned sociologist of social movements, particularly the May 68 student movement in France and the Solidarity trade-union movement in communist Poland.