School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
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Type | Public |
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Established | 1947 |
Location | , 48°50′45.959″N 2°19′44.001″E / 48.84609972°N 2.32888917°E |
Website | http://www.ehess.fr |
École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) is one of the most selective and prestigious social sciences Grandes écoles in Paris, France.[1]
EHESS was originally a department of the École pratique des hautes études, founded in 1868 to train academic researchers. It became an independent institution in 1975. Today, its research covers the fields of economics and finance, cognitive sciences, humanities, and politics, such as the sciences, applied mathematics and statistics, development studies, sociology, anthropology, history, musicology, and the philosophy of the social sciences.[2]
Notable Teacher
[change | change source]- Roland Barthes, French philosopher
- Michel Chodkiewicz, French author and a scholar of Sufism
- Marc Ferro, French historian
- Gérard Genette, French literary theorist
- Jacques Mehler, Spanish-born French-American influential cognitive psychologist
- Pierre Nora, French historian
- Alain Touraine, French sociologist
References
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