About Roger Establet
Lived 1938 – 2026 (aged 87–88). Roger Establet was a French sociologist, philosopher, translator and university teacher.
Roger Establet Polity (1938 – 8 April 2026) was a French scholar of the sociology of education. A student of Louis Althusser, Establet was an emeritus professor at University of Provence.
Life and career A student at the lycée in Nice, and khâgne at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, in 1959 he entered the Ecole Normale Supérieure, where he earned degrees in philosophy and sociology. He often collaborated with Christian Baudelot, a sociologist at the École normale supérieure. He was involved in Althusser's Reading Capital project. Establet died on 8 April 2026.
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).
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French sociologist
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Roger Establet was born in 1938 in Nice.
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Roger Establet died on 8 April 2026 in Rognes.
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