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French scholar
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Male
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Birth:
1938
Education:
Lycée Louis-le-Grand
École normale supérieure
agrégation de philosophie
The details
Biography
Introduction
Roger Establet Polity (born 1938) is a French scholar of the sociology of education. A student of Louis Althusser, Establet is an emeritus professor at University of Provence.
A student at the lycée in Nice, and khâgne at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, in 1959 he entered the école normale supérieure, where he earned degrees in philosophy and sociology. He often collaborates with Christian Baudelot, a sociologist at the École normale supérieure. He was involved in Althusser's Reading Capital project.
Works
- L'École capitaliste en France, 1970 (with Christian Baudelot)
- Le niveau monte (with Christian Baudelot)
- (with Christian Baudelot) Suicide: The Hidden Side of Modernity (2008). ISBN 9780745640563