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Laurent Thévenot
Researcher at École Normale Supérieure
Publications - 103
Citations - 10280
Laurent Thévenot is an academic researcher from École Normale Supérieure. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sociology of culture & Economic sociology. The author has an hindex of 39, co-authored 101 publications receiving 9625 citations. Previous affiliations of Laurent Thévenot include INSEE & School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.
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The Sociology of Critical Capacity
Luc Boltanski,Laurent Thévenot +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the author argues that many situations in social life can be analyzed by their requirement for the justification of action and argues that the human capacity for criticism becomes visible in the daily occurrence of disputes over criteria for justification.
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Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology: Repertoires of Evaluation in France and the United States
Michèle Lamont,Laurent Thévenot +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of the state-of-the-art research work in the field of social sciences, focusing on the following areas of research: education, psychology, and social sciences.