Louis Pierre Chauvel

Background

Chauvel, Louis Pierre was born on November 2, 1967 in Paris. Son of Pierre and Pierrette Chauvel.

Education

Master of Arts in Economics and Statistics, Ecole National Statistique Del Administration Economique, Paris, 1990. Master of Arts in Social Sciences, Ecole Normale Supérieure and Ecole Hautes Etudes Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1991. Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, University Lille, 1997.

Habilitation in Sociology, Institute D Etudes Politiques Paris, 2003.

Career

He is specialized in social generations, in the analysis of social structures, in cohort and generational change. Chauvel received some international media attention as an expert following the spring 2006 First Employment Contract protests in France, which underlined the déclassement (downward social mobility) of the young generations in France. His analyses on the declining leadership of the "new" (post-1968) middle classes on the French political system explain the 2007 success of Nicolas Sarkozy.

He develops a comparative theory of Welfare regime sustainability based on the age-period-cohort impact of economic stresses on social generations: Southern European countries, including France, prefer the development of seniority rights to the integration of the new generations.

A "policy of generation" would be able to restore the long-term balance between age groups. He has published seventy scientific papers on social change, social inequalities, middle class, generational change and suicide, he is also a proponent of public sociology.

Achievements

• Louis Pierre Chauvel has been listed as a noteworthy social sciences educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member of the Institut universitaire de France, he is also member of the executive committee of the French Association Française de Sociologie and of the International Sociological Association, and had been the General Secretary of the European Sociological Association (2004–2006).

Connections

Married Faustine Regnier, September 9, 2000. Children: Esther, Emile.

Father:

Pierre Chauvel

Mother:

Pierrette Chauvel

Spouse:

Faustine Regnier

child:

Esther Chauvel

child:

Emile Chauvel