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Return of the Actor
 
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Alain Touraine
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Return of the Actor

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Hardcover, 197 pages
Published July 28th 1988 by University of Minnesota Press (first published 1984)
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Return of the Actor: Social Theory in Postindustrial Society (Paperback)
Возвращение человека действующего: Очерк социологии (Hardcover)
retour de l'acteur: essai de sociologie

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About Alain Touraine

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Alain Touraine is a French sociologist. He is research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux (see also Daniel Bertaux). He is best known for being the originator of the term "post-industrial society". His work is based on a "sociology of action," and believes that society shapes its future through structural mechani...more
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