Raymond Boudon

Raymond Boudon ( born January 27, 1934 in Paris, † April 10, 2013 ) was a French sociologist and philosopher.

Boudon represented the methodological individualism, according to which social acts are attributed to the individual as a logical unit of sociological analysis. From the same perspective, to explain macro-sociological phenomena on the basis of micro-sociological models of action, he developed the theory of rational decision on.

He was a member of the Institut de France and professor at the University of Paris- Sorbonne (Paris IV). He was a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques, the Academia Europaea, the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Academy for the Human Sciences of St Petersburg, the Royal Society of Canada, the Argentine Academy of the Social Sciences. In 1990 he received the Premio Amalfi.

Important works

  • La crise de la sociologie, 1971
  • L' inégalité des chances in 1973
  • Education, Opportunity, and Social Inequality, 1974
  • Effets pervers et ordre social, 1977
  • La Logique du social, 1979. ( German: The logic of social action, ISBN 3472751169 )
  • La Place du désordre, 1984
  • Dictionnaire critique de la sociologie, 1990
  • Déclin de la morale, déclin of valeurs, 2002
  • Tocqueville aujourd'hui, 2005
  • Renouveler la démocratie: you éloge sens commun, 2006
  • The Origin of Values, 2001
  • The Poverty of Relativism, 2004
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