title: Roger Establet
text: # Roger Establet
  
  Roger Establet Polity (born 1938) is a French scholar of the sociology of education. A student of Louis Althusser, Establet is an emeritus professor at University of Provence.
  
  A student at the lycée in Nice, and khâgne at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, in 1959 he entered the école normale supérieure, where he earned degrees in philosophy and sociology. He often collaborates with Christian Baudelot, a sociologist at the École normale supérieure. He was involved in Althusser's Reading Capital project.
  
  ## Works
  
  * L'École capitaliste en France, 1970 (with Christian Baudelot)
  * Le niveau monte (with Christian Baudelot)
  * (with Christian Baudelot) Suicide: The Hidden Side of Modernity (2008). ISBN 9780745640563
  