Louis Chauvel

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Louis Chauvel, born in 1967, is a French sociologist, PhD Université de Lille (1997), Habilitation Sciences Po (2003). He is specialized in social generations, in the analysis of social structures, in cohort and generational change. Chauvel received some international media attention as an expert following the spring 2006 First Employment Contract protests in France, which underlined the déclassement (downward social mobility) of the young generations in France.

He is full professor at Sciences Po (see List of Sciences Po People). He has published seventy papers on social change, social inequalities, generational change and suicide. He is also member of the Institut universitaire de France. He is also the General Secretary of the European Sociological Association, member of the executive committee of the French Association Française de Sociologie and of the International Sociological Association.

[edit] Publications

• Le Destin des générations. Structure sociale et cohortes en France au XXe siècle, Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1998, ISBN 2-13-052710-8
• Les Classes moyennes à la dérive, Seuil, Paris, 12 octobre 2006, ISBN 2-02-089244-8

[edit] Liens externes

• Louis Chauvel, sociologue, his personnal site (French)