School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
The École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (or School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, also known as EHESS) is a French institution for research and higher education, a Grand Établissement. Its mission is research and research training in the social sciences, including the relationship these latter maintain with the natural and life sciences. The EHESS is located in central Paris (6th arrondissement), although some of its research centers and teams are based in Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse.
Overview
Originally part of the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) as its VI Section: Sciences Économiques et Sociales, the EHESS gained autonomy as an independent higher education institution on January 23, 1975. The creation of a dedicated branch for social science research within the EPHE was supported by several initiatives of the Rockefeller Foundation dating back to the 1920s. Soon after its creation (1947), the VI Section, later EHESS, became one of the most influential shapers of contemporary historiography, area studies and social sciences methodology, thanks to the contribution of eminent scholars such as Lucien Febvre, Fernand Braudel, Jacques Le Goff.
Today, the EHESS is one of France's prestigious Grands Établissements. It functions as a research, teaching, and degree-granting institution. It offers advanced students high-level programs intended to lead to research careers. Students are admitted by dossier and undertake at the EHESS master programs and doctoral studies. The main areas of specialization include: history, linguistics, philosophy, philology, sociology, anthropology, economics, cognitive science, demographics, geography, archaeology, psychology, law, and mathematics, although the institution's focus is on interdisciplinary research within these fields. The EHESS currently hosts more than 80 research centers (among which several joint research units with the CNRS) and 22 doctoral programs, 13 of which in partnership with other French Universities and Grandes Écoles.
Faculty
Past and present faculty include:
- François Bourguignon
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Fernand Braudel
- Fernando Henrique Cardoso
- Manuel Castells
- Cornelius Castoriadis
- Annie Cohen-Solal
- Jacques Derrida
- Marc Ferro
- François Furet
- Maurice Godelier
- Jacques Le Goff
- Jacques Mehler
- Ignacio Ramonet
- Jean-Claude Schmitt
- Alain Touraine
Research centers
Among the research institutes and teams hosted at EHESS:
- Centre Alexandre-Koyré (CAK)
- Centre d'Analyse et de Mathématique Sociales (CAMS)
- Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine (CECMC)
- Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux (CEMS)
- Centre de sociologie européenne (CSE)
- Groupe d'Anthropologie Historique de l'Occident Médiéval (GAHOM)
- Institut Jean Nicod [1] (IJN)
- Laboratoire de sciences cognitives et psycholinguistique [2] (LSCP)