Alain Touraine has died at the age of 97 in Paris. His field of study has ranged from the post-war factories that lifted the country to post-industrial society.

Touraine became a reference of what in his country they call the second left. He shared the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities in 2010 with fellow thinker Zygmunt Bauman (Poznan, Poland) He was a great analyst of periods of political and economic crisis and lamented the arrival of ultras like Matteo Salvini.