The Max Weber Center, is a general sociology laboratory, which gathers most of the sociologists from the Lyon/Saint-Etienne site. Located in Lyon and Saint-Etienne, it is institutionally attached to four trustees: the university Lumière Lyon 2 (principal guardianship), the CNRS, the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, and the Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne. The Center is a member of the Institute of Human Sciences, named after a great founder of sociology, who, even today, still marks the most diverse contemporary sociology through his work as a sociologist and epistemologist of the social sciences. The members of the Max Weber Center demonstrate their commitment to a theoretical, methodological and epistemological pluralism. On January 1, 2016, the Max Weber Center had 265 Members: 222 members on a permanent basis and 43 members on a part-time basis. Amongst the 222 permanent members: there are 105 PhD students, 14 engineers and administrative technicians (CNRS and the Universities), 5 CNRS researchers, 63 researchers and teacher-researchers from the universities, and 35 contractual researchers. The Max Weber Center’s scientific policy is deployed through cross-cutting research activities and also the activities of its six teams:
- Work, institutions, professions, organizations
- Social and political dynamics of private life
- Knowledge Policies: Located and Democratic issues
- Public cultures
- Provisions, powers, cultures, socialization
- Modes, Spaces and processes of socialization
Its fields of specialization are work, family and relationships, gender, pragmatic approaches, knowledge, the study of socialization, culture, and urban mechanisms.
CMW Laboratory sheet
Laboratory of generalist sociology