Raymond Boudon was born in 1934. He has been professor at the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) since 1967, and is concurrently affiliated with the University of Bordeaux and the National Center for Scientific Research.
As an internationally renowned scholar, Professor Boudon is member of the Institut de France (Académie des Sciences morales et politiques), the Academia Europaea, the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Central European Academy of Art and Science. He has been visiting professor at the University of Geneva, Harvard University, the University Bocconi of Bologna, Oxford University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Stockholm, to mention a few. In addition, he has been invited to give the Lazarsfeld lecture at Columbia University, the Patten Foundation Lecture at Indiana University, the Lurçy Lecture and the Sidney Ball Lecture at the University of Chicage, the Fulvio Guerrini Lecture at the University of Turin, the Eilert Sund Lecture at the University of Oslo.
In recognition of his outstanding achievement, he has been awarded the Prix Girardeau of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques, the Grand Prix Moron of the Académie française, the Prix Futuribles, the European Price Amalfi for the Social Sciences, and the Grand Prix des Sciences Humaines de la Ville de Paris. He is doctor honoris causa of the universities of Cluj (Rumania) and Antwerp (Belgium).
Professor Boudon has been academically active all through. He is the editor of the Année sociologique and of the series Sociologies at the Presses Universitaires de France. He is member of the editorial board of the series Theory and Decision, Epistémè. He has been member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Sociology. |