Louis-André VALLET
Directeur(trice) de recherche
CURRICULUM VITAE – Juillet 2024
Download on HAL Louis-André Vallet’s PHd, defended in 1992 :
“La mobilité sociale des femmes en France : la participation des femmes aux processus de mobilité sociale intergénérationnelle”
Research interests
Louis-André Vallet’s research focuses on social stratification in France since the mid-twentieth century and is often conducted within collaborative frameworks with a cross-national comparative perspective. His work addresses the structure and temporal trends of social inequalities in education, intergenerational and intragenerational mobility, and the link between education levels and social position. Louis-André Vallet is also interested in the notion of causality in the social sciences as well as statistical analysis methods for categorical variables and longitudinal data.
Recent communications
- 2024, “On the Relationship between Inequality of Educational Opportunity and Inequality of Social Opportunity: A Reassessment of the Third Section of “L’inégalité des chances” (1973)”, International Symposium “Engaging with Boudon: Insights for Contemporary Sociological Science”, Sorbonne University, Paris, June 27th-29th.
- 2024 (with Stéphane Benveniste, Elise Huillery and Jean-Marc Germain), « Webinaire “Mobilité sociale : si l’on misait sur le capital humain ?” », Rencontre économique de l’IGPDE, Ministère de l’Economie, des Finances, et de la Souveraineté Industrielle et Numérique, Paris, 21 Mars.
- 2023 (with Chlöé Farrer and Sébastien Goudeau), « Presentation of the Synopsis de l’ouvrage collectif du Réseau Thématique Pluridisciplinaire du CNRS “Recherches autour des questions d’éducation” », International conference Éducation et inégalités, RTP and MITI-CNRS, Paris,May 15th-17th.
- 2022, « Méritocratie et mobilité sociale : un aperçu de la recherche empirique en sociologie », Colloque “Méritocratie” : Analyses et Controverses, Collège de France, 24 Mai. « Social Mobility and Meritocracy: An Overview of Empirical Research About France (with a Brief Comparative Perspective) », European Academy of Sociology, Paris, October 29th.
- Video: https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/colloque/meritocratie-analyses-et-controverses/meritocratie-et-mobilite-sociale-un-apercu-de-la-recherche-empirique-en-sociologie
- 2020, « La mobilité sociale en France depuis les années 1970 au prisme d’une perspective comparative (Europe, Etats-Unis). Mesures et causes », Quatrième journée du Séminaire DREES-ONPES Trajectoires et parcours des personnes en situation de pauvreté et d’exclusion sociale, 19 Octobre, visio-conférence.
- 2019 (avec Marta Veljkovic), “Intragenerational Mobility and Career Fluidity in France Over Birth Cohorts and Across Age (1970-2015): The Role of Counter-Mobility and Other Types of Career Patterns“, ECSR Conference on Inequality over the Life Course, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, September 12th-14th.
- 2018, “Change in Social Fluidity over Birth Cohorts in France: Educational Expansion and Democratization of Education as Key Explanatory Mechanisms”, Research Committee 28 (Social stratification), XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, 15-21 juillet.
- 2018, “The Democratization of Education, its Apparent Paradox, a Plausible Explanation, and its Empirical Proof“, Séminaire de l’axe Politiques éducatives du LIEPP, mercredi 21 février 2018, LIEPP, Paris et Workshop Intergenerational Mobility and Income Inequality, 12-14 Mars, University of Haïfa, Israël.
Teaching
- Sociologie de l’éducation et des inégalités d’éducation : France et une perspective comparative (2ème année, Master de sociologie, Sorbonne Université, until the 2023-2024 academic year).
Resources : Quelques repères pour l’accès aux données d’enquête.
PhD student
Olivier Monso (defense scheduled on December 3rd, 2024)
Former PhD students
- Jean-François Mignot (2009, CNRS Research Fellow)
- Noémie Le Donné (2015, Senior Analyst at the OECD Directorate of Education)
- Milan Bouchet-Valat (2015, INED Research Fellow)
- Marta Veljkovic (2022, Assistant Professor at Sorbonne University)
Scientific Responsibilities
- Member of CSEN – Conseil Scientifique de l’Education Nationale.
- Member (to represent the CNRS) of the Scientific Council of CEREQ – Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur les Qualifications.
- Member of Réseau Thématique Pluridisciplinaire du CNRS ‘Recherches autour des questions d’éducation’.
- Member of Comité stratégique 2020 relatif à l’ouverture sociale dans l’enseignement supérieur.
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Étude Longitudinale Française depuis l’Enfance (ELFE).
- Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology (since 2019).
Louis-André Vallet was Chief Editor of the Revue française de sociologie between July 2014 and June 2020 and a member of the RFS Board between January 1991 and June 2021.
He was or has been a member of the Board or Advisory Board of the following journals:
- Acta Sociologica (2015-2018)
- European Sociological Review (2000-2017 and 2021-)
- Social Forces (2009-2013)
- Bulletin de Méthodologie sociologique (since 2010)
- Économie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics (since 2010)
He is also a member of the Société Française de Statistique.
He led the Scientific and Organizational Boards for the ECSR 2018 Conference in Paris (29-31 October 2018).
International collaborations
Louis-André Vallet was a member of the Board of the Research Committee 28 “Social Stratification and Mobility”, in the International Sociological Association between 2018 and 2023. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR) between 2012 and 2018.
He was also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Educational Panel Study (Germany) between 2009 and 2021.
