Raymond Boudon, the Leader of "Methodical Individualism"

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[...] Alongside his teaching activity, he creates in 1971 "the Analytical Methods Study Group sociological," which he directed until 1998. By joining forces with the National Council for Scientific Research and the University of the Sorbonne, he has in this approach a real scientific ambition which is to "contribute to the production of rigorous empirical sociological knowledge closely articulated with sociological theory". He is an emeritus professor, known throughout the world because he has been invited to many foreign universities: Harvard (1974), Stockholm (1977), Geneva (1977), New York (1983), Chicago (1987), Oxford (1995), Oslo (1998) or Hong Kong (1999), and he is also a member of many academies such as the Academia Europaea, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, the Royal Society of Canada, the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Central Europe, the International Academy of Education, the International Academy of Humanities of St. [...]

[...] His most famous book East "inequality Opportunities: Social Mobility in Industrial Societies (2001)" in which Raymond Boudon denounces the theory of the repetition of inequality promoted by Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron. Boudon thinks that within our democratic and modern societies, children from working classes can absolutely access higher education if they want to, it's an individual choice and some do, others don't. not. And it is not simply due to their social heritage and habitus. [...]

[...] Raymond Boudon, the Leader of "Methodical Individualism" Raymond Boudon is a philosopher and one of the most eminent French sociologists of the 20[th] century and the beginning of the 21[st] century with Alain Touraine, Michel Crozier [HYPERLINK: https://www.jesuismort.com/tombe/michel-crozier] and Pierre Bourdieu [HYPERLINK: https://www.jesuismort.com/tombe/pierre-bourdieu]. He was born on January in Paris and died on April in Paris. Raymond Boudon is an influential current of "methodological individualism" which consists of making an explanatory approach of a collective demonstration as being the final result of a set of actions, of individual beliefs in opposition to structuralism (holism) of Bourdieu, which aims to describe human facts, essentially on an analysis of their structure, of the relationship between their members and highlights phenomena which are most often unconscious, linking men to each other. [...]

[...] The following year he wrote a complementary thesis on structuralism, which was entitled "What is the notion of structure for?" in 1968. He then became the leader of methodical individualism in France. Also claiming to Émile Durkheim [HYPERLINK: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Durkheim] and D'Alexis de Tocqueville [HYPERLINK: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville], where he studied their books, he was in opposition to the "structuralists" led by Pierre Bourdieu [HYPERLINK: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Bourdieu], in the virulent debates which agitated sociology in France at the end of the 20[th] [HYPERLINK: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXe_si%C3%A8cle] century [HYPERLINK: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXe_si%C3%A8cle]. [...]