Mohamed Cherkaoui - Curriculum vitae#
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Born: 22nd avril 1945 in Boujad (Morocco)
Married, three children
Address: Groupe d’Etude des Méthodes de l’Analyse Sociologique (Unité Mixte de Recherche 8598), Maison des Sciences de l’Homme 54, boulevard Raspail - 75006 Paris
Doctorat d’Etat ès-Lettres et Sciences Humaines, University of Paris-Sorbonne
Research areas:
Social stratification, mobility, education, research methods, epistemology and social theory.
Research
- 1972-1974 Research Assistant, University of Paris V.
- 1975 Research Follow, Private research group
- Since 1976 Attaché, Chargé, then research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Groupe d’Etude des Méthodes de l’Analyse Sociologique (GEMAS)
- Since 1998 Director of the Groupe d’Etude des Méthodes de l’Analyse Sociologique, Research Unit of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and of the University of Paris Sorbonne
Teaching
- 1971-1973 Assistant Professor, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris
- 1973-1974 Assistant Professor., University of Paris V.
- 1976-1982 Reader, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris
- 1978 Visiting Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford
- 1980-1982 Assistant Professor, University of Geneva
- Visiting Professor, Universities of Liège, Casablanca, Rabat
- 1988-1994 Full Professor of methodology and epistemology of social sciences University of Lausanne
- Since 1994- Visiting Professor, University of Geneva
- Since 1998 Member of the Post-graduate School, University of Paris Sorbonne
Consulting
- 1976 Assessment of research studies on the French school system (Institut National de Recherche Pédagogique, Paris).
- 1977 Assessment of research studies for the French Ministry of Planning Advisory consultant of Le Monde
- 1979-1982 Official representative in charge of the evaluation of research projects financed by the CORDES, Comité de Politique sociale, Commissariat Général au Plan (French Ministry of Planning).
- 1980-1983 Secretary for the Research Committee on the History of Sociology, International Sociological Association
- 1989-1994
- Advisory consultant for Swiss firms on Communication programmes and public opinion research
- Advisory consultant (Moroccan Foundation for Migrant Workers)
- Assessment of the social effects of the neo-liberal economic programme in Morocco.
- 1995-2000 Member of the National Committee of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Section 36.
- 2004-2007 Idem
- 2004-2006 Expert for the High Commissioner of Planning (Morocco) Prospective for Morocco 2005-2025, (UNDP)
- 2005-2009 Research Director and expert for the Ministry of Higher Education (Morocco). Research on the Human and Social Sciences
- Since 2007 Expert for the Royal Institute for Strategic Studies
- 2010 Member of the Royal Consultative Commission for Regionalisation (Morocco)
Member of editorial boards of the following Journals:
- Since 1978 Revue Française de Sociologie
- 1979-1983 Theory and Society
- Since 1982 Quality and Quantity
- 1982-1994 International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
- Since 1999 Comprendre. Revue de philosophie et de sciences sociales
- 2004-2007 Director of the Revue Française de Sociologie
- Since 2005 Journal of Classical Sociology
- Director of the series GEMAS Studies in Social Theory, Bardwell-Press, Oxford
- Since 2007 Co-director ot the Series « Sociologies » aux Presses Universitaires de France
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