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School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

January 13, 2023

The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (French: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate grande école and grand établissement in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences.[2][3] The school awards Master and PhD degrees alone and conjointly with the grandes écoles École Normale Supérieure, École Polytechnique, and École pratique des hautes études.

The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
École des hautes études en sciences sociales
Other names
EHESS
Former names
École pratique des hautes études, VI Section (1947–1975),
École libre des hautes études (1941–1946)
TypeGrand établissement
EPCSCP
Established23 January, 1975
Budget€60 million[1]
PresidentChristophe Prochasson
Academic staff
830
Administrative staff
450
Students3,000[1]
Location
Paris, Marseille, Toulouse, Lyon
,
France
CampusUrban
WebsiteEHESS.fr

Originally a department of the École pratique des hautes études, created in 1868 with the purpose of training academic researchers, the EHESS became an independent institution in 1975.[4][5] Today its research covers social sciences, humanities, and applied mathematics. Degrees and research in economics and finance are awarded through the Paris School of Economics.

The EHESS, in common with other grandes écoles, is a small school with very strict entry criteria, and admits students through a rigorous selection process based on applicants' research projects. Scholars in training are subsequently free to choose their own curriculum amongst the School's fields of research. The école has a small student-faculty ratio; 830 researchers for 3,000 students (27.6%).

Most of the School's faculty belong to other institutions, mostly within the French National Centre for Scientific Research and schools affiliated with PSL University.[6] The School is notable for its work connected to amongst others sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, philosopher Jacques Derrida, as well as economist Thomas Piketty.[7][8]

History

École pratique des hautes études

Originally part of the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) as its VI Section: Sciences économiques et sociales, the EHESS gained autonomy as an independent higher education institution on 23 January 1975. The creation of a dedicated branch for social science research within the EPHE was catalyzed by the Annales historical school and was supported by several academic initiatives of the Rockefeller Foundation, dating to the 1920s. After WWII, the Rockefeller Foundation invested more funds in French institutions, seeking to encourage non-Marxist sociological studies.

The VIth section was created in 1947, and Lucien Febvre took its head. Soon after its creation (1947), the VI Section, later EHESS, became one of the most influential shapers of contemporary historiography, area studies and social sciences methodology, thanks to the contribution of eminent scholars such as Fernand Braudel, Jacques Le Goff and François Furet. F. Braudel succeeded L. Febvre in 1956. He concentrated the various study groups at the well-known building on boulevard Raspail (area of allée Claude-Cahun-Marcel-Moore), in part by financing from the Ford Foundation.[9]

Independent institution

Today, the EHESS is one of France's Grands établissements. It functions as a research, teaching, and degree-granting institution. It offers advanced students high-level programs intended to lead to research careers. Students are admitted on the relevance of their research project and undertake at the EHESS master programs and doctoral studies. The main areas of specialization include: history, literary theory, linguistics, philosophy, philology, sociology, anthropology, economics, cognitive science, demographics, geography, archaeology, psychology, law, and mathematics. The institution's focus is on interdisciplinary research within these fields. The EHESS has more than 40 research centers (among which are several joint research units with the CNRS) and 22 doctoral programs, 13 of which are in partnership with other French Universities and Grandes écoles.[10]

PSL Research University

The school is a constituent college of the federal PSL Research University. Other institutions include the College de France, the École Normale Supérieure, the École pratique des hautes études, Chimie ParisTech, ESPCI ParisTech, the École des mines, and Paris Dauphine University.

Research

History

Influence from the Annales School

Lucien Febvre and Fernand Braudel were members of the École des Annales, the dominant school of historical analysis in France during the interwar period. However, this school of thought was contested by the growing importance of the social sciences and the beginning of structuralism. Under pressure from Claude Lévi-Strauss, in particular, they integrated new contributions from the fields of sociology and ethnography to event-based historical analysis, a concept put forward by the Annales school, to advocate for the concept of "a nearly imperceptible passage of history". They were reproached, along with the structuralists, for ignoring politics and the individual's influence over his fate during a period in which the colonial wars of liberation were taking place.[citation needed]

The work of Braudel, Le Roy Ladurie and other historians working under their influence greatly affected the research and official teaching of history in France beginning in the 1960s. The work of Jean-Marie Pesez renewed interest in the issue of methodology in medieval archeology and created the idea of "material culture".[citation needed] François Hartog, who serves as the director of the school's ancient and modern historiography department, is also noted for proposing that the problems of modern time schema are not entirely caused by an imperialist past.[11] He is also known for challenging the Eurocentric reflection of history and the present.[12]

New History

During the 1970s, EHESS became the center of New History under the influence of Jacques Le Goff and Pierre Nora. During this period, a generation of ethnologists working under the ideas of Georges Balandier and Marc Augé were critical of the French colonial tradition and applied modern sociological concepts to third world countries.

New Polish School of Holocaust Scholarship

In 2019, held the New Polish School of Holocaust Scholarship conference. The conference was disrupted by Polish nationalists.[13][14][15] EHESS President, Christophe Prochasson, said he could not recall such a violent disturbance at any scientific conference.[16] Minister Frédérique Vidal condemned Polish authorities.[17][18]

Sociology

Pierre Bourdieu, Luc Boltanski, Alain Touraine, Jean-Claude Passeron have all been associated with EHESS.

Economics

EHESS has always been a central place for economic debate in Europe. In France this debate is also enabled by the proximity of the researchers in Paris with national economic institutions: In this sense EHESS's advisors who have been drawn from economic professors have enjoyed a large media audience (one notable example was Jean Fourastié). The diversity of viewpoints has been a priority, and liberal and Marxist economists have had the chance to debate in EHESS. Since the 1970s and 1980s EHESS has focused on quantitative economics, with classes led by well-known professors such as Louis-André Gérard-Varet, Jean-Jacques Laffont, François Bourguignon and Roger Guesnerie. They initiated not only the Paris School of Economics but the Toulouse School of Economics and Grequam (Aix-Marseille).

Organisation

Recruitment

More than 50% of the student body comes from countries other than France.

Domestic and foreign networks

Affiliations

The school is a founding member of the Paris School of Economics, Toulouse School of Economics, and Aix-Marseille School of Economics, the three French leading centers in Quantitative Economics. Since 2014 it is an associated member of the Paris Research University (PSL).

International partnerships

EHESS has exchange programs with universities such as Oxford and Cambridge in the United Kingdom; Columbia, Yale, University of California, and Michigan State in the United States; Heidelberg in Germany; Tokyo and Kyoto in Japan; Peking in China; the European University Institute in Florence, etc. Also, it has many relations and exchange programs with universities in Asia and the Middle-East; it holds research centers on Asian Studies and Islamic Studies.

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

Past and present faculty (including EPHE's VI Section):

See also

References

  1. ^ a b . Archived from the original on 5 June 2008. Retrieved 19 June 2008.
  2. ^ "Comprendre les sociétés humaines".
  3. ^ "The Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales | Columbia | HILI".
  4. ^ www.legifrance.gouv.fr https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000000634415. Retrieved 3 May 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ www.legifrance.gouv.fr https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000039323049/. Retrieved 3 May 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ Sociales, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences (7 December 2015). "Partenaires". EHESS.
  7. ^ Sociales, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences (2 March 2016). "History". EHESS. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  8. ^ Sociales, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences (21 February 2017). "Thomas Piketty". EHESS (in French). Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  9. ^ Sociales, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences (19 December 2018). "L'histoire de l'École". EHESS.
  10. ^ Sociales, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences (25 November 2015). "Les unités et centres de recherche". EHESS.
  11. ^ Lorenz, Chris; Bevernage, Berber (2013). Breaking Up Time: Negotiating the Borders Between Present, Past and Future. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. p. 209. ISBN 978-3-525-31046-5.
  12. ^ Diawara, Mamadou; Lategan, Bernard C.; Rüsen, Jörn (2010). Historical Memory in Africa: Dealing with the Past, Reaching for the Future in an Intercultural Context. Berghahn Books. p. 88. ISBN 978-1-84545-652-8.
  13. ^ Par Danielle Delmaire, « Chahut lors d’un colloque sur la Shoah en Pologne », Tsafon [En ligne], 77 | 2019, mis en ligne le 09 septembre 2019, consulté le 15 décembre 2019. URL : [1] ; DOI : 10.4000/tsafon.2049
  14. ^ [2] Conflits contemporains dans la culture polonaise, un diagnostic : entretien avec Agnieszka Żuk, 3ᵉ partie
  15. ^ [3], Comprendre la relation des Polonais à la Shoah, Sylvain Boulouque, 25 novembre 2019
  16. ^ [4] Un colloque sur l’histoire de la Shoah perturbé par des nationalistes polonais, Le Monde
  17. ^ [5] La Pologne minimise les incidents lors d’un colloque sur la Shoah à Paris, Le Monde
  18. ^ [6], Behr Valentin, Entre histoire et propagande. Les contributions de l’Institut polonais de la mémoire nationale à la mise en récit de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Allemagne d'aujourd'hui

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The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences French Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales EHESS is a graduate grande ecole and grand etablissement in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences 2 3 The school awards Master and PhD degrees alone and conjointly with the grandes ecoles Ecole Normale Superieure Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole pratique des hautes etudes The School for Advanced Studies in the Social SciencesEcole des hautes etudes en sciences socialesOther namesEHESSFormer namesEcole pratique des hautes etudes VI Section 1947 1975 Ecole libre des hautes etudes 1941 1946 TypeGrand etablissementEPCSCPEstablished23 January 1975Budget 60 million 1 PresidentChristophe ProchassonAcademic staff830Administrative staff450Students3 000 1 LocationParis Marseille Toulouse Lyon FranceCampusUrbanWebsiteEHESS frOriginally a department of the Ecole pratique des hautes etudes created in 1868 with the purpose of training academic researchers the EHESS became an independent institution in 1975 4 5 Today its research covers social sciences humanities and applied mathematics Degrees and research in economics and finance are awarded through the Paris School of Economics The EHESS in common with other grandes ecoles is a small school with very strict entry criteria and admits students through a rigorous selection process based on applicants research projects Scholars in training are subsequently free to choose their own curriculum amongst the School s fields of research The ecole has a small student faculty ratio 830 researchers for 3 000 students 27 6 Most of the School s faculty belong to other institutions mostly within the French National Centre for Scientific Research and schools affiliated with PSL University 6 The School is notable for its work connected to amongst others sociologist Pierre Bourdieu philosopher Jacques Derrida as well as economist Thomas Piketty 7 8 Contents 1 History 1 1 Ecole pratique des hautes etudes 1 2 Independent institution 1 3 PSL Research University 2 Research 2 1 History 2 1 1 Influence from the Annales School 2 1 2 New History 2 1 3 New Polish School of Holocaust Scholarship 2 2 Sociology 2 3 Economics 3 Organisation 3 1 Recruitment 4 Domestic and foreign networks 4 1 Affiliations 4 2 International partnerships 5 Notable alumni 6 Notable faculty 7 See also 8 References 9 External linksHistory EditEcole pratique des hautes etudes Edit Originally part of the Ecole pratique des hautes etudes EPHE as its VI Section Sciences economiques et sociales the EHESS gained autonomy as an independent higher education institution on 23 January 1975 The creation of a dedicated branch for social science research within the EPHE was catalyzed by the Annales historical school and was supported by several academic initiatives of the Rockefeller Foundation dating to the 1920s After WWII the Rockefeller Foundation invested more funds in French institutions seeking to encourage non Marxist sociological studies The VIth section was created in 1947 and Lucien Febvre took its head Soon after its creation 1947 the VI Section later EHESS became one of the most influential shapers of contemporary historiography area studies and social sciences methodology thanks to the contribution of eminent scholars such as Fernand Braudel Jacques Le Goff and Francois Furet F Braudel succeeded L Febvre in 1956 He concentrated the various study groups at the well known building on boulevard Raspail area of allee Claude Cahun Marcel Moore in part by financing from the Ford Foundation 9 Independent institution Edit Today the EHESS is one of France s Grands etablissements It functions as a research teaching and degree granting institution It offers advanced students high level programs intended to lead to research careers Students are admitted on the relevance of their research project and undertake at the EHESS master programs and doctoral studies The main areas of specialization include history literary theory linguistics philosophy philology sociology anthropology economics cognitive science demographics geography archaeology psychology law and mathematics The institution s focus is on interdisciplinary research within these fields The EHESS has more than 40 research centers among which are several joint research units with the CNRS and 22 doctoral programs 13 of which are in partnership with other French Universities and Grandes ecoles 10 PSL Research University Edit The school is a constituent college of the federal PSL Research University Other institutions include the College de France the Ecole Normale Superieure the Ecole pratique des hautes etudes Chimie ParisTech ESPCI ParisTech the Ecole des mines and Paris Dauphine University Research EditHistory Edit Influence from the Annales School Edit Lucien Febvre and Fernand Braudel were members of the Ecole des Annales the dominant school of historical analysis in France during the interwar period However this school of thought was contested by the growing importance of the social sciences and the beginning of structuralism Under pressure from Claude Levi Strauss in particular they integrated new contributions from the fields of sociology and ethnography to event based historical analysis a concept put forward by the Annales school to advocate for the concept of a nearly imperceptible passage of history They were reproached along with the structuralists for ignoring politics and the individual s influence over his fate during a period in which the colonial wars of liberation were taking place citation needed The work of Braudel Le Roy Ladurie and other historians working under their influence greatly affected the research and official teaching of history in France beginning in the 1960s The work of Jean Marie Pesez renewed interest in the issue of methodology in medieval archeology and created the idea of material culture citation needed Francois Hartog who serves as the director of the school s ancient and modern historiography department is also noted for proposing that the problems of modern time schema are not entirely caused by an imperialist past 11 He is also known for challenging the Eurocentric reflection of history and the present 12 New History Edit During the 1970s EHESS became the center of New History under the influence of Jacques Le Goff and Pierre Nora During this period a generation of ethnologists working under the ideas of Georges Balandier and Marc Auge were critical of the French colonial tradition and applied modern sociological concepts to third world countries New Polish School of Holocaust Scholarship Edit In 2019 held the New Polish School of Holocaust Scholarship conference The conference was disrupted by Polish nationalists 13 14 15 EHESS President Christophe Prochasson said he could not recall such a violent disturbance at any scientific conference 16 Minister Frederique Vidal condemned Polish authorities 17 18 Sociology Edit Pierre Bourdieu Luc Boltanski Alain Touraine Jean Claude Passeron have all been associated with EHESS Economics Edit EHESS has always been a central place for economic debate in Europe In France this debate is also enabled by the proximity of the researchers in Paris with national economic institutions In this sense EHESS s advisors who have been drawn from economic professors have enjoyed a large media audience one notable example was Jean Fourastie The diversity of viewpoints has been a priority and liberal and Marxist economists have had the chance to debate in EHESS Since the 1970s and 1980s EHESS has focused on quantitative economics with classes led by well known professors such as Louis Andre Gerard Varet Jean Jacques Laffont Francois Bourguignon and Roger Guesnerie They initiated not only the Paris School of Economics but the Toulouse School of Economics and Grequam Aix Marseille Organisation EditThis section needs expansion You can help by adding to it January 2017 Recruitment Edit More than 50 of the student body comes from countries other than France Domestic and foreign networks EditAffiliations Edit The school is a founding member of the Paris School of Economics Toulouse School of Economics and Aix Marseille School of Economics the three French leading centers in Quantitative Economics Since 2014 it is an associated member of the Paris Research University PSL International partnerships Edit EHESS has exchange programs with universities such as Oxford and Cambridge in the United Kingdom Columbia Yale University of California and Michigan State in the United States Heidelberg in Germany Tokyo and Kyoto in Japan Peking in China the European University Institute in Florence etc Also it has many relations and exchange programs with universities in Asia and the Middle East it holds research centers on Asian Studies and Islamic Studies Notable alumni EditManola Antonioli Roberto Beneduce Nicole Brenez Francoise Briand Manuel Carvalheiro Antonio Casilli Arachu Castro Yves Censi Philippe Corcuff Julien Coupat Louis Chauvel Louis Dumont Pascal Chaigneau Jacques Dassie Robert Delort Bozidar Đelic Aissa Dermouche Albert Doja Esther Duflo Serge Dufoulon Moises Espirito Santo Safi Faye Caroline Fourest Dario Gamboni Susan George Nathalie Heinich Beatrice Hibou Jean Hyppolite Bruno Jaffre Christian Geffray Michel Lauwers Marc Lazar Jose Manuel Lopez Lopez Frederic Lordon Edouard Louis Caterina Magni Sabrina Malek Alain Marleix Frederic Martel Walter Mignolo Laure Murat Sebastien Nadot Guadalupe Nettel Christine Niederberger Betton Laurent Nunez Hector Obalk Thomas Pavel Thomas Piketty Guy Poitevin Ignacio Ramonet Joseph Gai Ramaka Bernard Salanie Cheick Oumar Sissoko Bernard Stiegler Jean Louis Swiners David Thesmar Alain Touraine Laurent Turcot Frederic Vandenberghe Olivier Weber Stanislas Dehaene Thomas Piketty Didier Fassin Esther Duflo Manuel Antonio Garreton Jean BerlieNotable faculty EditPast and present faculty including EPHE s VI Section Marc Abeles fr Sylviane Agacinski Marc Auge Roland Barthes Claude Berge Augustin Berque Pierre Bourdieu Francois Bourguignon Jean Boutier fr Fernand Braudel Claude Calame Fernando Henrique Cardoso Manuel Castells Cornelius Castoriadis Roger Chartier Annie Cohen Solal Jacques Derrida Philippe Descola Oswald Ducrot Louis Dumont Nicolas Ellison Moises Espirito Santo fr Lucien Febvre Marc Ferro David Feuerwerker Maribel Fierro Francois Furet Marcel Gauchet Maurice Godelier Nilufer Gole Algirdas Julien Greimas Roger Guesnerie Pierre Hadot Bernard Harcourt Stanley Hoffmann Olivier Jeanne Rainer Maria Kiesow fr Milan Kundera Jacques Lacan Marie Claire Lavabre Jacques Le Goff Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie Claude Lefort Pierre Manent Jacques Mehler Christian Metz Edgar Morin Thomas Piketty Richard Portes Ignacio Ramonet Pierre Rosenstiehl Emma Rothschild Olivier Roy Jean Marie Schaeffer fr Jean Claude Schmitt Carlo Severi Wiktor Stoczkowski fr Sanjay Subrahmanyam Jean Tirole Christian Topalov fr Alain Touraine Alessandro Triulzi Jean Pierre Vernant Georges Vigarello Arundhati Virmani Eduardo Viveiros de Castro Francois Weil fr Michael Werner fr Michel Wieviorka Claude Levi Strauss Emma Georgina Rothschild Jean Tirole Pierre Bourdieu Edgar MorinSee also EditEcole libre des hautes etudes The New School for Social Research Paris Universitas Category School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences alumni Category School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences facultyReferences Edit a b EHESS l Ecole Archived from the original on 5 June 2008 Retrieved 19 June 2008 Comprendre les societes humaines The Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales Columbia HILI www legifrance gouv fr https www legifrance gouv fr jorf id JORFTEXT000000634415 Retrieved 3 May 2022 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a Missing or empty title help www legifrance gouv fr https www legifrance gouv fr loda id JORFTEXT000039323049 Retrieved 3 May 2022 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a Missing or empty title help Sociales Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences 7 December 2015 Partenaires EHESS Sociales Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences 2 March 2016 History EHESS Retrieved 3 May 2022 Sociales Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences 21 February 2017 Thomas Piketty EHESS in French Retrieved 3 May 2022 Sociales Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences 19 December 2018 L histoire de l Ecole EHESS Sociales Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences 25 November 2015 Les unites et centres de recherche EHESS Lorenz Chris Bevernage Berber 2013 Breaking Up Time Negotiating the Borders Between Present Past and Future Gottingen Vandenhoeck amp Ruprecht p 209 ISBN 978 3 525 31046 5 Diawara Mamadou Lategan Bernard C Rusen Jorn 2010 Historical Memory in Africa Dealing with the Past Reaching for the Future in an Intercultural Context Berghahn Books p 88 ISBN 978 1 84545 652 8 Par Danielle Delmaire Chahut lors d un colloque sur la Shoah en Pologne Tsafon En ligne 77 2019 mis en ligne le 09 septembre 2019 consulte le 15 decembre 2019 URL 1 DOI 10 4000 tsafon 2049 2 Conflits contemporains dans la culture polonaise un diagnostic entretien avec Agnieszka Zuk 3ᵉ partie 3 Comprendre la relation des Polonais a la Shoah Sylvain Boulouque 25 novembre 2019 4 Un colloque sur l histoire de la Shoah perturbe par des nationalistes polonais Le Monde 5 La Pologne minimise les incidents lors d un colloque sur la Shoah a Paris Le Monde 6 Behr Valentin Entre histoire et propagande Les contributions de l Institut polonais de la memoire nationale a la mise en recit de la Seconde Guerre mondiale Allemagne d aujourd huiExternal links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales L Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales official site in French EHESS s history in French List of EHESS research centers Portal France Coordinates 48 51 0 86 N 2 19 36 33 E 48 8502389 N 2 3267583 E 48 8502389 2 3267583 Retrieved from https en 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