Raymond Boudon

Raymond Boudon 27 January 1934 – 10 April 2013 was the sociologist, philosopher as well as Professor in the Paris-Sorbonne University.

Career

With Alain Touraine, Michel Crozier and Pierre Bourdieu, Raymond Boudon is one of the main French sociologists of the last quarter of the 20th century. He is invited for his research on social mobility and inequality of opportunities as well as for his defense of methodological individualism.

He was a piece of numerous important institutions. Académie des Sciences morales et politiques, Academia Europaea, British Academy, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, International Academy of Human Sciences of St Petersburg, Central European Academy of Arts and Sciences. And a fellow at the Center for sophisticated Study in the Behavioral Sciences and an invited professor notably at Harvard, Oxford University, and the Universities of Geneva, Chicago, and Stockholm.

A biographical discussing of him by Jean-Michel Morin was published in 2006.