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Jeanne Lazarus
CNRS Research Professor, HDR, Dean of the Undergraduate College
Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO)
Research Interest(s): Sociology of Bank, Consumption, Money
Discipline(s): Sociology
Research Group(s): Governance and Economic Organisations; Knowledge, Science and Expertise Program
Biography
Jeanne Lazarus’s research focuses on:
- Money and banks
This field examines the interplay between the practices of households, banks, and public authorities within an institutional framework that encompasses banking regulation as well as group insurance and fiscal policies. - Public Policies on Household Finances
This research analyzes the policies that influence how individuals and households manage their money, take on debt and save, choose financial products, and resolve their financial difficulties. How do these policies evolve alongside changes in the welfare state? What conceptions of protection do they convey? - Women’s Money
The objective of this research area is to bring sociological studies on money into dialogue with gender studies. One of the key challenges is to analyze the link between self-ownership and ownership of money.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
2023
- Dean of the Undergraduate College
- Editor-in-Chief of Sociologie
2022-2023
Chairwoman of the Institute Council Video
2020-2023
Director of the Sociology Department at Sciences Po
2019-2022
Chair of the IEP Council
2017-2020
Co-responsible for college courses in the sociology department
2016-2019
Vice-Chair of the IEP Board
Since 2016
Member of the executive board of the Society for Advanced Socio-Economics (SASE), senior adviser for the SASE Newsletter
Since 2014
- Member of the editorial board of Sociologie
- Member of the Scientific Council of the Banking Inclusion Observatory (Banque de France)
2012-2016
Member of the editorial board of Critique internationale
Since 2009
Member of the editorial board of La vie des idées
EDUCATION
2019
Habilitation (professorial thesis) in Sociology
Dissertation title: “L’argent en règle” [Money in order], University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (guarantor: Nicolas Duvoux)
2004-2009
PhD in Sociology, with highest honour and a special commendation from the committee, EHESS (advisor: Luc Boltanski)
Dissertation title: “L’Epreuve de l’argent. Une sociologie de la banque et de ses clients” [The test of money: A sociology of the bank and its clients]
2002-2004
DEA (M.Phil) in Sociology, l’EHESS
2002
Agrégation in Economic and Social Sciences
1999-2001
Political Studies Institute - Paris
Projects
- Trajectoires de pauvreté : profils
- déterminants et conséquences. Perspectives française et européennes
Teaching
- Academic Writing (First Year, Paris Campus)
- Major Issues in French Society (EAP, M1)
- Economic Sociology (Master’s in Sociology, M2)
- Introduction to Sociology (First Year, Nancy Campus)
publications
- Jeanne Lazarus (dir) “An intersection that counts. Gender studies and economic sociology”, Economic sociology. Perspectives and conservations, vol 27, n°2, March 2026
- Luc Boltanski, Arnaud Esquerre et Jeanne Lazarus, Comment s’invente la sociologie, Paris, Flammarion, 2024
- Hélène Ducourant et Jeanne Lazarus, « Credit in Society and in Sociology. On « La Banque et sa clientèle » (Bourdieu, Boltanski, Chamboredon, 1963) », European Journal of Sociology, 2023, pp.1-32.
- José Ossandon, Joe Deville, Jeanne Lazarus et Mariana Luzzi, « Financial oikonomization: the financial management and government of the household », Socio-economic review, Vol. 20, n°3, July 2022, p. 1473–1500
- Jeanne Lazarus. « L’argent des femmes. Quelques pistes de recherche », Sensibilités : histoire, critique & sciences sociales, 2021, 1 (9), pp.60 – 71, https://sciencespo.hal.science/hal-03408677/file/Lazarus_sensibilite%CC%81s_hal.pdf