Dominique Schnapper

Dominique Schnapper ( born Dominique -Françoise Aron, born November 9, 1934 in Paris ) is a French sociologist.

Her parents were the well-known French sociologist Raymond Aron and Suzanne Gauchon ( 1907-1997 ).

Snapper completed her studies in history and political science in 1957 from the Institut d' études politiques de Paris. In 1967 she received a PhD in sociology at the Sorbonne. From the 1980s she was the director of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales ( EHESS ), where she established the Institute for Jewish Studies.

Dominique Schnapper deals primarily with historical sociology, as well as with studies on minorities, unemployment, labor and urban sociology, and, since the 1990s, even with the concept of nation and citizenship.

She was 1987-1996 member of several government advisory committees, as well as between 1995 and 1999 President of the Société Française de Sociologie. Snapper was also from 2001 to 2010 a member of the French Constitutional Council, the Constitutional Council.

Dominique Aron married in 1958 the French art historian Antoine Schnapper ( 1933-2004 ) with whom she has three children.

Awards

• Chevalier de la Légion d' Honneur
• Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
• Balzan Prize ( 2002)
• Prix ​​de l' Assemblée nationale (1994 )
• Prix ​​du Livre politique (2007)

Writings

• Juifs et israélites, Gallimard, Paris 1980 engl:. Jewish Identities in France: an analysis of contemporary French jewry, Chicago University Press, Chicago, Ill. 1983, ISBN 0-226-73910-4

• Engl:. community of citizens: on the modern idea of nationality, Transaction Publ, New Brunswick, NJ 1998, ISBN 1560003510

• Engl:. Providential democracy. An essay on contemporary equality, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ 2006, ISBN 0765803062