MADRID – MADRID (AP) — Sociologists Zygmunt Bauman and Alain Touraine have been awarded Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias Communication and Humanities award for their contributions to modern ...

A central figure on the French and international intellectual scene, sociologist Alain Touraine died in Paris on the morning of Friday, June 9, announced his daughter, former Socialist minister ...

Alain Touraine was four years my junior, so he could not have belonged to the generation of the French Resistance. A student at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), he was deeply influenced by Georges ...

In an interview with Die Zeit, French social movements expert Alain Touraine delivers a scathing criticism of the student protests in France, which he sees as being led by a desire to "defend acquired ...