Florence Weber

Florence Weber
Born (1958-01-31) 31 January 1958 (age 68)
OccupationsResearcher and University professor
Academic background
EducationParis 8 University

Paris Descartes University École Normale Supérieure

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Academic work
DisciplineAnthropology, Sociology
InstitutionsÉcole Normale Supérieure, Centre Maurice Halbwachs
Websitehttps://www.cmh.ens.fr/author/florence-weber/

Florence Weber, born 31 January 1958, is a French sociologist and anthropologist who has worked on the rural and working class worlds in France.

Research and positions

Florence Weber is a university professor at the École normale supérieure, where she was head of the social sciences department, and a researcher at the Maurice-Halbwachs Center, 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. She is one of the pioneers in this field in France, particularly alongside Jean-Robert Dantou.

Education

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

Books (in French)

References

  1. ↑ "ENS-Département de Sciences sociales-Florence Weber". elias.ens.fr. Archived from the original on 30 January 2023. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  2. ↑ "CMH – Centre Maurice Halbwachs". Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  3. ↑ "Jean-Robert Dantou et Florence Weber : Anthropologie et photographie". as.nyu.edu. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  4. ↑ "Retour de La Souterraine". ens.psl.eu. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
  5. ↑ Brian, Éric; Weber, Florence (20 October 2014). "La place de Mauss dans l'anthropologie mondiale et dans la mémoire de la sociologie française". Trivium. Revue franco-allemande de sciences humaines et sociales - Deutsch-französische Zeitschrift für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (in French) (17). doi:10.4000/trivium.4824. hdl:20.500.12204/AWRH7V0kgpz89Adag5CI. ISSN 1963-1820.