Roger Establet Polity (1938 – 8 April 2026) was a French scholar of the sociology of education. A student of Louis Althusser, Establet was an emeritus professor at University of Provence.

Life and career
editA student at the lycée in Nice, and khâgne at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, in 1959 he entered the Ecole Normale Supérieure,[1] where he earned degrees in philosophy and sociology. He often collaborated with Christian Baudelot, a sociologist at the École normale supérieure. He was involved in Althusser's Reading Capital project. Establet died on 8 April 2026.[2]
Works
edit- L'École capitaliste en France, 1970 (with Christian Baudelot)
- Le niveau monte (with Christian Baudelot)
- (with Christian Baudelot) Suicide: The Hidden Side of Modernity (2008).[3] ISBN 9780745640563
References
edit- ↑ site Internet de l'Association des anciens élèves, élèves et amis de l'ENS
- ↑ Mr Roger Establet (in French)
- ↑ Review Times Higher Education. Retrieved 11 June 2013.