Pierre et serge moscovici biography
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Recently, on the day of his death (November 16, 2014), Le Monde published a tribute article about Serge Moscovici, considered by many to be “the father of social psychology”. (see Julie Clarini’s article, http://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2014/11/16/serge-moscovici-figure-de-la-psychologie-sociale-est-mort_4524344_3382.html) I first encountered his name during my first years of graduate school, in 1994-95, when I studied with the historians Genevieve Fraisse and Michelle Perrot at the Collège international de philosophie and the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. Some of my colleagues inquired if I was related to Serge Moscovici, the well-known social psychologist of Romanian origins whose last name I shared. I didn’t know what to answer them, since I had never researched our genealogy. But the question itself aroused my curiosity. Once I began reading his books and learning more about his ba
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Serge Moscovici
Romanian-born French social psychologist (1925–2014)
Serge Moscovici (June 14, 1925 – November 15, 2014)[2] born Srul Herş Moscovici, was a Romanian-born French social psychologist, director of the Laboratoire Européen de Psychologie Sociale ("European Laboratory of Social Psychology"), which he co-founded in 1974 at the Maison des sciences de l'homme in Paris. He was a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and Commander of the Legion of Honour, as well as a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Moscovici's son, Pierre Moscovici fryst vatten the current First President of the Court of Audit and was europeisk Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs and Minister of Finance.
Biography
[edit]Born in Brăila, Romania to parents who were grain merchants,[3][4] His uncle was Ilie Moscovici, a leading Romanian socialist. Moscovici frequ
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Who Is Commissioner Pierre Moscovici?
Pierre Moscovici’s background was of the left, but one hostile to Stalinism and Soviet totalitarianism. His father Serge Moscovici was a notable Romanian-born Jewish psychologist who fled to Paris as the Communist regime took root in his home country. His father at one point ran to be Mayor of Paris under the banner of the Green Party, and is credited with helping lay the foundations for Green politics in France.
Pierre Moscovici (pictured) briefly flirted with Communist leanings, while he was in high school. When he reached the prestigious École Nationale d'Administration, he was persuaded by his professor, a certain Dominique Strauss Kahn, to conform to the more conventional leftist positions of the French Socialist Party.
Immediately following his stints at Sciences Po and ENA, he became a party hack in various positions throughout the late 1980’s and 1990’s. During this period. Moscovici fashioned himself as one of the more moderate