Robert Castel

Robert Castel
Born (1933-03-27)27 March 1933
Saint-Pierre-Quilbignon, France
Died 12 March 2013(2013-03-12) (aged 79)
Paris, France
Occupation sociologist

Robert Castel (27 March 1933 – 12 March 2013) was a French sociologist and researcher at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales.[1][2][3]

Academic career

Castel was born in Saint-Pierre-Quilbignon, now part of Brest. He initially studied philosophy in the late 1950s. In the late 1960s, he met Pierre Bourdieu and began working with him in sociology. His initial work dealt with psychology and psychiatry, establishing a critical sociology of these issues and linking this work to Michel Foucault, particularly to his 'genealogical approach'. He further dealt with exclusion, or rather what he called the 'disaffiliation', which affects individuals 'by default'.[1]

His later and perhaps best known work examined how the wage system, which at first was despised, has gradually established itself as the reference model and has been progressively associated with social protections, and the concept of social property, creating a constitutive status of 'social identity'.[1][2] Castel was responsible for the formation of Le Groupe d'analyse du social et de la sociabilité (GRASS), a specialised group of sociologists within the CNRS.

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