Former research director at CNRS, Michel Pinçon was best known for his work on the richest categories of the population. He died on Monday at the age of 81.
Le Monde
French sociology has lost one of its most famous representatives. Michel Pinçon died at the age of 81, Monday, September 26, according to information published by humanity on Wednesday, and confirmed to the world by his publisher, La Découverte.
Former research director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Michel Pinçon was best known for his work on the richest categories of the population, carried out in tandem with his wife, Monique Pinçon-Charlot. In the beautiful districts (PUF, 1989) or the Gotha ghettos (Seuil, 2007) are among their most emblematic works. The duo had been able to get out of the classic formats of sociology, by delivering, for example, in 2009, a study of some Parisian districts presented in the form of a travel guide (Paris: fifteen sociological walks, Payot).
Retired since 2007, Pinçon-Charlot had since left the rigor of scientific guns to engage in more impressionist observations. Strongly politicized, the couple was marked on the left, and resolutely opposed to Emmanuel Macron, as evidenced by their work the president of the Ultrariches (La Découverte, 2019).
“I pay tribute to this traveling companion, a great sociologist, who has continued, with Monique, to decipher the relations of domination in all its forms”, reacted Fabien Roussel, deputy of the North and National Secretary of the French Communist Party.