Books by Alain Touraine

In this book, the author questions the social and cultural content of democracy today. He aims to aid in reconstructing the political space and to promote the rebirth of democratic convictions by combating two threats: On the one, it risks and on the other, its name.

It has been my object in the present work to investigate the problems of ethics in the light of an examination of the facts of moral life. One reason for this procedure is my desire to conduct the reader by the same path that I myself have followed in approaching ethical questions.

In this book, the author questions the social and cultural content of democracy today. He aims to aid in reconstructing the political space and to promote the rebirth of democratic convictions by combating two threats: On the one, it risks and on the other, its name.

This 1983 book records an analysis of the Solidarity movement in Poland. Alain Touraine here proposes an understanding of the place of social movements in contemporary society, and a fresh means of analysing them through 'sociological intervention'. These research methods were used in 1981 to analyse to the Solidarity movements.

In this provocative and timely new book, Alain Touraine explores the question of how we might live together in a truly globalized world society. Rejecting the seductive metaphor of a global melting pot, Touraine mounts a powerful attack on the idea that we now live together as equals, sharing the same social and cultural values.