Born August1 1930, in Denguin. Died January 23 2002.
Training and professional career
- 1941-1947 : Lycée de Pau
- 1948-1951 : Lycée Louis-le-Grand
- 1951-1954 : École normale supérieure
- 1951-1954 : Faculté des lettres de Paris
- 1954-1955 : Teacher at Lycée de Moulins
- 1958-1960 : Assistant at the Faculté des lettres d'Alger
- 1960-1961 : Assistant at the Faculté des lettres de Paris
- 1961-1964 : Senior lecturer, Faculty of Letters, Lille
- 1964-2001 : Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
- 1964-1984 : Lecturer at the École Normale Supérieure and Director of the Centre de Sociologie de l'Éducation et de la Culture (EHESS-CNRS)
- 1964-1992 : Director of the Collection " Le sens commun " (Éditions de Minuit)
- 1972-1973 : Visiting Member at the Institute for Advanced Studies (Princeton)
- 1975-2002 : Director of Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales and Consulting Editor of the American Journal of Sociology
- 1982-2001 : Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France
- 1985-1998 : Director of the Centre de Sociologie Européenne (CSE) at Collège de France and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
- 1989-1998 : Director of the international book review Liber
- 1998-2002 : Director of the " Liber " collection (Éditions du Seuil)
Awards and honors
- 1993 : CNRS Gold Medal
- 1996 : Erving Goffman Prize, University of California-Berkeley
- 1997 : Ernst-Bloch-Preis, City of Ludwigshafen
- 2000 : Huxley Memorial Medal, Royal Anthropological Institute, London
- 2001 : Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
