Georges Friedmann
| Georges P. Friedmann | |
|---|---|
| Born |
13 May 1902 Paris |
| Died | 15 November 1977 (aged 75) Paris |
| Nationality | French |
| Fields | Sociology |
Georges Philippe Friedmann (French: [fʁidman]; 13 May 1902 – 15 November 1977), was a French sociologist.
Georges Friedmann was the founder of the sociology of work after World War II. In 1921, after studying industrial chemistry, he entered a teacher training college on the rue d'Ulm, in Paris, France. During the war, he was an intellectual Marxist and close to the communist party. Friedmann devoted the majority of his work to the study of relationships between man and machine in industrial societies in the first half of the 20th century.
Friedmann was born to Adolphe Friedmann (1857–1922) and Elisabeth Nathan (1871–1940). His sister, Marcelle Friedmann, was married to René Dujarric de la Rivière.
Friedmann's work, like Work in Crumbs (1956), was often reduced to be presented as a sociology of work.
In 1931, he approached the problems posed by work and techniques.
In 1946, his thesis Problems of Industrial Mechanization introduced the new sociology of work to France. At this time, sociology had already been made known and was recognized both in France by Friedmann, and overseas by his American peers. However, Friedmann's journey and work exceeded this unique sociology identity of work by a long way.
In 1960, he explored a different field of technical culture: communications and mass culture.
Friedmann's as an organizer and initiator of research was seen during the time he headed the Center for Sociological Studies (at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique).
During the rise of Fascism in the 1930s, Friedmann, like others of his time, wondered about the Soviet experience. He learned to speak Russian at the Institute of Oriental Languages, and between 1932 and 1936 made many trips to the USSR. From these travels he drew two works, in which he expressed his support for the communist regime in Moscow.
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