Laurent Thévenot

Laurent Thévenot (born 1949) is a French sociologist and Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris).

With Luc Boltanski, he co-authored On Justification (2006 [1991]) which analyzes the most legitimate repertoires of evaluation and criticism governing political, economic and social relationships.

Una introducción a la sociología pragmática, Buenos Aires, Siglo Veintiuno) widens critical approaches to power through the analysis of oppressions on valued regimes people are empowered through by engaging with the environment and with others, from intimacy to the level of public conventions.

This framework has been developed and tested in collaborative and comparative research on the political and moral grammars used in differing and making things and issues common.

Collaborative programs have compared architectures of communities in Western Europe (European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, special issue on 'Politics of Engagement in an Age of Differing Voices' co-edited with Eeva Luhtakallio, 2018 5(1–2)), Russia (Revue d'Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest, special issue on 'Critiquer et agir en Russie' co-edited with Françoise Daucé et Kathy Rousselet, 2017 48(3-4)) and the United States (Comparing Cultures and Polities: Repertoires of Evaluation in France and the United States, co-edited with Michèle Lamont, Cambridge University Press, 2000).