Known for his work on the wealthiest categories of the French population, which he had co-signed almost half a century with his wife Monique Charlot, he had distinguished himself by the radicality of his analyzes. He died on September 26, at the age of 80.
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Combat sociologist known for his work on the wealthiest categories of the French population, which he co-signed almost half a century with his wife Monique Charlot (we talk about the “Pinçon-Charlot”), Michel Pinçon died on September 26, at the age of 80, from Alzheimer’s disease, according to a press release from his publisher, the discovery.
If the couple of sociologists have marked so much, it is as much by the radicality of their analyzes on the bourgeois elites as by the singular tandem that he formed. Convinced that their “career would not have been possible without the other”, Monique Charlot stressed that this was the fruit of “two inverted class neuroses”. It comes from an easy but little erudite environment – a province notability – when it came from a modest background where it forged a demanding culture alone.
Born in LONNY, in the Ardennes, on May 18, 1942, of a Polier worker father and a mother of cleaning woman, Michel Pinçon is only seen by school (college in Mézières, Lycée in Charleville) and reading, by which he acquires a rich personal culture. But without drawing joy or enthusiasm, worrying about being “a poor type all [s] for life” if success must move him away from the culture of his parents, “while propeling him towards a stranger who [he ] does not master the codes “.
her urban segregation, to him the working world
The salvation of the young man badly in his skin will come from Lille, in 1965. It was at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences that Michel Pinçon, who has been following the courses of sociology of Pierre Bourdieu for two years, meeting Monique Charlot, a young sociology student, too. She is 19 years old, he 23. They married in September 1967 to be able to leave together in Morocco, where Michel carried out his military service, as part of cooperation, as a French teacher.
There they are jointly study the Moroccan company in line with the work of Bourdieu. But the shared signature is not university: the two-voice memory that they compose under the direction of Jean-Claude Passeon, then close to Bourdieu, is finally refused by the Paris-Vincennes University. Without dismantling themselves, the two researchers cut their sum in two distinct, but Siamese memories, which they support the same day, September 2, 1970.
In the couple everyone has their option: it is urban segregation, to him the working world. It is alone that Michel Pinçon looks at developments in the metallurgical industry in the Meuse valley and their social repercussions. If they take their card to the French Communist Party, they move away from activism from the birth of their son, in 1974.
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