This chapter is a critical assessment of the study of Solidarity carried out by Alain Touraine and his research team in 1981 and first published in French in 1982 and in English in 1983. The …

From the Frankfurt School to Michel Foucault, this critical theory has played a considerable role in sociology because it is true that power is no longer above social life but inherent to each of its …

For Touraine, the power of the state as well as the power of capitalism must be resisted – by free and active social movements in a pluralist society. Touraine is reformist: the system is capable …

Alain Touraine's sociological project is directed towards explicating the new societal contours of advanced industrial society from the stance of a politically engaged leftist.

Touraine was always looking for the central conflict and a historical subject that would be able to bring society to a higher level of consciousness and make it advance to a new stage of...

It consists of sixteen major papers by seventeen authors from three continents, including Jeffrey Alexander, David Apter, Raymond Boudon, Jean L. Cohen, Michel Crozier, Andre Gorz, T.K. …

Many types of collective behavior are not social conflicts: panics, crazes, fashions, currents of opinion, cultural innovations not conflicts, even if they define in a precise way what they react …