Abstract
This text presents the content of two interviews given by Alain Touraine to Ricardo Festi and Flávio Mendes in Paris, in 2017 and 2018. The sociologist recalls his trajectory in the French academic environment, which he joined in the 1950s, in the midst of disputes over the re-foundation of the discipline in the post-war period. Touraine also recounts his long relationship with Latin America, a region that, since his travels to Santiago in 1956 and São Paulo in 1959, has inspired books and articles, all of them with expressions of intense theoretical and political dialogues. Finally, the gives his opinion about contemporary themes, addressed in more recent works.
Keywords:
Alain Touraine; French Sociology; Latin American Sociology; Social Movements