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Roger Establet

Roger Establet Polity was a French scholar of the sociology of education. A student of Louis Althusser, Establet was an emeritus professor at University of Provence.

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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,1 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 2026.2

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).3 ISBN 9780745640563
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