Robert Castel
Encyclopedia
Robert Castel is a French
sociologist, currently a researcher at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales
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. He then became interested in psychoanalysis
and psychiatry
, establishing a critical sociology of these issues and linking this work to Michel Foucault
, particularly to his 'genealogical approach'. His later works dealt with exclusion, or rather what he calls the 'disaffiliation', which affects individuals 'by default'.
His current works examine how the wage system, which at first was despised, has gradually established itself as the reference model and has been progressively associated with social protections, and the concept of social property, creating a constitutive status of 'social identity'. He is responsible for the formation of Le Groupe d'analyse du social et de la sociabilité (GRASS), a specialised group of sociologists within the CNRS.
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
sociologist, currently a researcher at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
The École des hautes études en sciences sociales is a leading French institution for research and higher education, a Grand Établissement. Its mission is research and research training in the social sciences, including the relationship these latter maintain with the natural and life sciences...
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Work
His initial works dealt with the notion or object of the 'psy' sciences then with what he calls the 'new social questions'. In the 1960s he worked with Pierre BourdieuPierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher.Starting from the role of economic capital for social positioning, Bourdieu pioneered investigative frameworks and terminologies such as cultural, social, and symbolic capital, and the concepts of habitus, field or location,...
. He then became interested in psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is a psychological theory developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis has expanded, been criticized and developed in different directions, mostly by some of Freud's former students, such as Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav...
and psychiatry
Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...
, establishing a critical sociology of these issues and linking this work to Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...
, particularly to his 'genealogical approach'. His later works dealt with exclusion, or rather what he calls the 'disaffiliation', which affects individuals 'by default'.
His current works examine how the wage system, which at first was despised, has gradually established itself as the reference model and has been progressively associated with social protections, and the concept of social property, creating a constitutive status of 'social identity'. He is responsible for the formation of Le Groupe d'analyse du social et de la sociabilité (GRASS), a specialised group of sociologists within the CNRS.
Books
- Le Psychanalysme, 1973
- L'Ordre psychiatrique, 1977 (Translated into English in 1988: The Regulation of Madness: The Origins of Incarceration in France)
- La Gestion des risques, Minuit, 1981
- La Société psychiatrique avancée, 1979
- Les Métamorphoses de la question sociale, une chronique du salariat, Fayard, 1995. (Translated into English in 2002: From Manual Workers to Wage Laborers: Transformation of the Social Question)
- Propriété privée, propriété sociale, propriété de soi (avec Claudine Haroche), 2001.
- L'Insécurité sociale : qu'est-ce qu'être protégé?, Éd. du Seuil, 2003.
- La discrimination négative, 2007
- La montée des incertitudes : Travail, protections, statut de l'individu, Ed. du Seuil, 2009
Reference
- « Robert Castel », Le MondeLe MondeLe Monde is a French daily evening newspaper owned by La Vie-Le Monde Group and edited in Paris. It is one of two French newspapers of record, and has generally been well respected since its first edition under founder Hubert Beuve-Méry on 19 December 1944...
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