Paris Descartes University École Normale Supérieure Florence Weber, born 31 January 1958, is a French sociologist and anthropologist who has worked on the rural and working class worlds in France.
Florence Weber is a university professor at the École normale supérieure, where she was head of the social sciences department,[1] and a researcher at the Maurice-Halbwachs Center,[2] a research center of the ENS, EHESS, Cnrs and INRAE.
Her work focuses on the methodology of fieldwork, on economic activities analyzed from a sociological perspective, and on the care of disabled and dependent people by the family, the market, and the state, especially when these people are described in terms of cognitive disabilities or mental disorders.
She is recently committed to a contemporary practice of photography armed with social science.
[3][4] Student at the École normale supérieure des jeunes filles (1977–1982) Agrégée in Social Sciences (1981) MAS in Social anthropology from the EHESS (1981) New regime thesis at EHESS (1986) Habilitation to direct research at Paris VIII (2000) which is the highest French degree