Martin Aranguren studied sociology, philosophy, political science, and anthropology in Argentina, France, Germany, Senegal, Venezuela, India, and the United States. After completing his PhD at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in 2014, he was recruited at CNRS in 2015, initially joining the research unit URMIS, then the CRIS in 2021.
Martin’s research seeks to explain macro-social inequalities on the basis of micro-social mechanisms operating at the level of face-to-face interaction. For his empirical work, he uses a diverse palette of methods (all uniquely good for something, none good for everything): archival search, semi-structured interviews, participant observation, analysis of survey/administrative data, and field experiments.
His dissertation proposed an original approach for studying the dynamics of emotional encounters in the context of interpersonal relations. Based on field experiments, his more recent work investigates everyday discrimination in urban public places. His HDR (Habilitation à diriger des recherches) thesis, defended in 2024, puts forward an original research program for investigating the contribution of discrimination to inequalities in mental health.

• 2021-2022, "Reducing Risk Compensation (GERICO)",  ANR, Call Résilience Covid-19. 
  GERICO cherche à expliquer pourquoi les individus relâchent une mesure préventive (maintenir une distance minimale d'un mètre) lorsqu'ils en adoptent une autre (porter un masque) dans le contexte de la pandémie de Covid-19. 
• 2018-2021, "Misrecognitive discrimination" (MIDI), Momentum grant, Mission pour les Initiatives Transverses et Interdisciplinaires, CNRS. 
  En utilisant des expériences de terrain, MIDI étudie les formes subtiles de discrimination dans le contexte des interactions en face-à-face dans les lieux publics.

• 2023, Research design and introductory statistics (Quantitative Methods I), Sociology Master’s, Sciences Po.
• 2022, Data analysis using regression (Quantitative Methods II), Sociology Master’s, Sciences Po.

Member of the editorial board of Appartenances & Altérités

Peer reviewing: Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, PLOS Global Public Health, PLOS ONE, Scientific Reports, Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Science and Medecine

• Aranguren, Martin (2024). "Adding experiments to the classical survey-interview mix: A three-method design for supporting micro-to-macro explanations in sociology", Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 91(10093). doi: 10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100933
• Aranguren, Martin (2024). "Racial discrimination in helping situations depends on the cost of help: A large field experiment in the streets of Paris", The British Journal of Sociology, en ligne depuis le 8 octobre 2024. doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.13156
• Aranguren, Martin, Carlo Barone et Mirna Safi (2024). « Les enjeux de régulation éthique dans les expérimentations de terrain en sciences humaines et sociales », L'Année sociologique 74(2): 475-494. doi: 10.3917/anso.242.0475
• Aranguren, Martin (2024). Recension invitée de l’ouvrage "Experimental Thinking: A Primer on Social Science Experiments” de James N. Druckman (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Contemporary Sociology 53(2): 131-133. 10.1177/00943061241227106h
• Aranguren, Martin, Alice Cartaud, Ibrahima Cissé et Yann Coello (2023), "People interact closer when a face mask is worn but risk compensation is at best partial",  European Journal of Public Health 33(6): 1177–1182. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckad161
• Aranguren, Martin (2023). “Sketch of a research program on the contribution of discrimination to mental health inequalities: a critical review of evidence, models and methods.” Appartenances & Altérités 3. doi: 10.4000/alterites.484
• Aranguren, Martin (2023). “Prévalence, mécanismes et conséquences des discriminations en raison de l’origine: un état des lieux des travaux en économie, en psychologie et en sociologie.” Appartenances & Altérités 3. doi: 10.4000/alterites.464
• Aranguren, Martin (2022). “Face mask use conditionally decreases compliance with physical distancing rules against COVID-19: Gender differences in risk compensation pattern.” Annals of Behavioral Medicine 56(4): 332-346. doi: 10.1093/abm/kaab072
• Aranguren, Martin, & Francesco Madrisotti (2019). “Des regards aux égards. Effets du foulard islamique sur le comportement visuel des passagers du métro de Paris.” Hommes & Migrations 1324: 39-47. doi: 10.4000/hommesmigrations.8276
• Aranguren, Martin, Francesco Madrisotti, & Eser Durmaz-Martins (2023). “Anti-Muslim behaviour in everyday interaction: evidence from a field experiment in Paris.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 49(3): 770–794. doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2021.1953378 
• Aranguren, Martin, Francesco Madrisotti, Eser Durmaz-Martins, Gernot Gerger, Lena Wittmann, & Marc Méhu (2021). “Responses to the Islamic headscarf in everyday interactions depend on sex and locale: A field experiment in the metros of Brussels, Paris, and Vienna on helping and involvement behaviors.” PLoS ONE. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0254927 
• Aranguren, Martin (2017). “La discrimination méprisante: Ébauche de définition d’une forme de traitement préjudiciable touchant particulièrement les minorités.” Migrations Société 2: 101-116. doi: 10.3917/migra.168.0101
• Aranguren, Martin (2017). “Exploring the nonverbal facet of ethnic discrimination: a field experiment on anti-Roma racism in the Paris métro.” Social influence 12(4): 155-166. doi: 10.1080/15534510.2017.1387173
• Aranguren, Martín (2016). “Construcción social de las emociones, hermenéutica y antropocentrismo: hacia un naturalismo antipositivista”. RELACES: Revista latinoamericana de estudios sobre cuerpos, emociones y sociedad 8(21): 77-87. www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=273246916007
• Aranguren, Martin (2017). “La transacción emocional como unidad de acción: un programa post-constructivista en sociología de las emociones”. Revista Brasileira de sociologia da emoção 16(46): 102-117. www.cchla.ufpb.br/rbse/ArangurenResResAbs.pdf
• Aranguren, Martin, & Jocelyne Arquembourg (2015). “Introduction to the special issue: ‘Doing things with emotions’/‘L’agir des émotions’.” Information sur les sciences sociales/Social Science Information 54(4): 419-423. doi: 10.1177/0539018415599119
• Aranguren, Martin (2015). “Emotional mechanisms of social (re) production.” Information sur les sciences sociales/Social Science Information 54(4): 543-563. doi: 10.1177/0539018415598403
• Aranguren, Martin (2017). “Reconstructing the social constructionist view of emotions: from language to culture, including nonhuman culture.” Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 47(2): 244-260. doi: 10.1111/jtsb.12132
• Aranguren, Martin (2015). “Nonverbal interaction patterns in the Delhi Metro: Interrogative looks and play-faces in the management of interpersonal distance.” Interaction Studies 16(3): 526-552. doi: 10.1075/is.16.3.08ara
• Aranguren, Martin, and Stéphane Tonnelat (2014). “Emotional transactions in the Paris subway: combining naturalistic videotaping, objective facial coding and sequential analysis in the study of nonverbal emotional behavior.” Journal of nonverbal behavior 38: 495-521. doi: 10.1007/s10919-014-0193-1
• Aranguren, Martin (2014). “Le travail émotionnel du client: La structure séquentielle des émotions dans les usages problématiques d’un serveur vocal.” Information sur les sciences sociales/Social Science Information 53(3): 311-340. doi: 10.1177/0539018414523520
• Aranguren, Martin (2012). “Sociologie du tuning. Réciprocité de l'ajustement et automatisme des choix techniques dans l'explication du succès des innovations”, Réseaux 175(5): 231-263. doi: 10.3917/res.175.0231
• Aranguren, Martin (2014). “L’exubérance du raisonnement joyeux. L’influence des humeurs sur la perception des affordances dans la résolution de problèmes.” Revue d’anthropologie des connaissances 8(3). doi: 10.3917/rac.024.0547
• Aranguren, Martin (2011). “Power Politics, Professionalism, and Patron–Client Relationships in Human Rights Advocacy: How Dalit Rights became Human Rights.” Globalizations 8(1): 31-46. doi: 10.1080/14747731.2011.544198
• Aranguren, Martín (2010). “La evolución de la revista Nueva Sociedad en el marco de la historia política y científico-social de América Latina (1972-1998), con foco en la llamada Teoría de la Dependencia”. Espacio abierto 19(1): 5-25. www.redalyc.org/pdf/122/12212289001.pdf