The French National Centre for Scientific Research is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
The Institut d'Études politiques de Lyon also known as Sciences Po Lyon, is a grande école located in Lyon, France. It is one of ten Institutes of Political Studies in France, and was established in 1948 by Charles de Gaulle's provisional government following the model of the École Libre des Sciences Politiques. It is located at the Centre Berthelot within the buildings of a former military health college and operates as an autonomous institution within the University of Lyon. It is the first Institute of Political Studies to have joined the prestigious Conférence des Grandes écoles.
Michel Crozier was a French sociologist and member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques from 1999 until his death. He also was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the American Philosophical Society, and a laureate of the Prix Alexis de Tocqueville (1997).
Georges Philippe Friedmann, was a French sociologist and philosopher, known for his influential work on the effects of industrial labor on individuals and his criticisms of the uncontrolled embrace of technological change in twentieth-century Europe and the United States.
Anne Muxel is a French sociologist more specialised in the study of the biographical memory. Her major sociological works concern politic socialisation, on one hand, and biographical roots of political and family behaviour, on the other hand. She is Research Director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a senior research fellow in the Paris Institute of Political Studies, a French research institute specializing in political and economic sciences and, specifically, in political sociology.
The Human and Social Sciences Library Paris Descartes-CNRS is one of the most important French libraries concerning sociology, linguistics and science education. The library collaborates with BNF as an associated pole on topics such as health and public policy, Ethics and bioethics, Health sciences and society, drug use and abuse, social psychology.
Renaud Sainsaulieu was a French sociologist specializing in the sociology of organizations. He was noted for promoting sociology outside academia. He was the director of the Centre d'Etudes Sociologiques at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) ; and founded the Laboratoire de Sociologie du Changement des Institutions (LSCI).
The Research Center for Anthropology and Comparative Sociology or LESC is a cross-faculty research entity of the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense and the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Didier Demazière is a French sociologist specializing in the study of unemployment; in 2012, he was a Senior Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research., assigned to the Centre de sociologie des organisations, in partnership with Sciences Po.
Alain Testart was a French social anthropologist, emeritus research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris and member of the Laboratory for Social Anthropology at the Collège de France. He specialized in primitives societies and comparative anthropology. His research themes included: slavery, marriage arrangements, funeral practices, gift and exchange, typology of societies, the political, the evolution of the societies, and questions of interpretation in prehistoric archaeology.
The CNRS Silver Medal is a scientific award given every year to about fifteen researchers by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). It is awarded to a researcher for "the originality, quality and importance of their work, recognised on a national and international level".
François Dupuy is a French management scholar, educator, and consultant, specializing in the sociology of business organizations. In 2015 he serves as an adjunct professor at INSEAD and as academic director at CEDEP, the European Centre for Executive Development. He is the author of numerous books on management in both French and English. He is also a co-founder and partner of Mesa Research Group, a consulting firm specializing in leadership development.
The University of Lille is a French public research university based in Lille, Hauts-de-France. It has its origins in the University of Douai (1559), and resulted from the merger of three universities – Lille 1 University of Science and Technology, Lille 2 University of Health and Law, and Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III in 2018. With more than 74,000 students, it is one of the largest universities in France and one of the largest French-speaking universities in the world.
Georg Krücken is a German sociologist and higher education researcher. He is director of the International Center for Higher Education Research Kassel (INCHER-Kassel) at the University of Kassel.
Erhard Friedberg is an Austrian sociologist born in 1942. His major contribution to organizations analysis is the conceptualization of the "organized action" and a methodology to analyze it.
Christine Musselin is French sociologist specializing in the sociology of organizations.
Anne-Marie Devreux is a French sociologist specializing in feminism and the sociology of gender relations.
Claudine Vidal is a French sociologist and a director emerita of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). She has conducted fieldwork in Africa for more than 20 years, especially in Sierra Leone and Rwanda and has published extensively about her findings there.
Margaret Rose Maruani Rey was a Tunisian-born French sociologist and director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. She was the founder and editor-in-chief of the academic journal, Travail, Genre et Sociétés and directed the international and multidisciplinary research network "Marché du travail et Genre" (MAGE–CNRS).
Catherine Marry is a French sociologist. Her research concerns the sociology of education, the sociology of work and gender studies. She was awarded an Irène Joliot-Curie Prize in 2008 for her mentorship activities and is a research director emeritus at the French research center, CNRS.
