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name	Sonny Bill Williams
birth name	Sonny William Williams
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birth place	Auckland, New Zealand
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Sonny William 'Sonny Bill' Williams (born 3 August 1985) is a New Zealand rugby union player, heavyweight boxer and former rugby league player. He is only the second person to represent New Zealand in rugby union after first playing for the country in rugby league. In rugby union he usually plays as a centre. He is particularly known in rugby league and rugby union for his ability to offload the ball in the tackle and, in rugby league, for his shoulder charges.

He started his professional rugby league career with the Canterbury Bulldogs in the Australian NRL. In 2008 he controversially left the Bulldogs mid-season to play rugby union with French club Toulon. In 2010 Williams signed with the New Zealand Rugby Union in an ultimately successful bid to play for the All Blacks at the 2011 Rugby World Cup. He played for Canterbury in the 2010 ITM Cup before being selected for the All Blacks' end of year tour in 2010, making his debut against England at Twickenham. He played for the Crusaders in the 2011 season of Super Rugby and plays for the Chiefs in the 2012 Super Rugby season. He was a member of the All Blacks squad that won the 2011 Rugby World Cup.

Since 2009 he has boxed five times, winning all five of his heavyweight bouts. He is the current New Zealand Professional Boxing Association (NZPBA) Heavyweight Champion.

Early life[link]

Williams was born on 3 August 1985, in Auckland, New Zealand, the son of John and Lee. He is of Samoan descent on his father's side. He grew up in the Auckland suburb of Mount Albert and attended Owairaka Primary School, Wesley Intermediate and Mount Albert Grammar School. Though his father was an accomplished rugby league player, Williams has said it was his mother who introduced him to the game.

Career[link]

Rugby league[link]

Williams was a Marist Saints junior when he was spotted playing in Auckland by Bulldogs talent scout John Ackland. In 2002 he was offered a contract and moved to Sydney (as the youngest player to ever sign with the Bulldogs) to play in the Bulldogs junior grades. He advanced up the ranks quickly, becoming a starting player in the forward pack for the Bulldogs Jersey Flegg Cup side in his first year. The following year Williams cemented a starting spot in the Premier League side. In 2004, when only 18 years old, he made his National Rugby League debut against the Parramatta Eels at Telstra Stadium. He experienced Premiership success in his rookie year and became the youngest person to play for the Bulldogs in a Grand Final when playing off the bench in the Bulldogs' 16–13 victory over the Sydney Roosters in the 2004 Grand Final. Williams capped off a successful debut season by being named the International Newcomer of the Year Award and was named in Rugby League World magazine's 2004 World XIII.

In 2004, he was selected by New Zealand after only a handful of NRL matches and on 23 April made his debut for the Kiwis as their youngest-ever Test player in the 2004 ANZAC Test against Australia. Williams played 15 NRL premiership matches during the season, firmly establishing himself in the Bulldogs squad. His contract was due to expire in 2005 and Williams reportedly received several lucrative offers to attempt to lure him away from the Bulldogs, with the largest rumoured to be about $3 million from Super League club St Helens in the UK. Williams decided to stay with the Bulldogs and signed on for a further two years. St Helens chairman Eamonn McManus later said the club had not made an offer to him.

Williams had a shortened 2005 season after sustaining a severe knee injury plus several other minor injuries. Williams only played five games through the year and he subsequently missed several internationals for New Zealand. Williams publicly expressed his frustration, stating "You've got to be pretty strong mentally when you have injuries, and I've had a few." Williams would later dismiss claims he was injury prone as "bullshit".

Williams stayed relatively injury-free throughout the 2006 season, playing in 21 matches. He scored 8 tries and just missed out on a Grand Final berth, losing to eventual winners the Brisbane Broncos in the Preliminary Final. Despite having been mostly injury free throughout the year, off-season surgery forced him to miss the Tri-Nations for the Kiwis for the second year running. At the start of the 2007 NRL season, Williams' contract status was a frequent news item in the Australian print media. The speculation ended when Williams re-signed with the Bulldogs on 9 March 2007, with a 5 year contract believed to be worth over $2.5 million, that would have seen him stay with the club through to the 2012 season.

In the first game of the 2007 season, Williams was sent off and subsequently suspended for two weeks for a high tackle on Andrew Johns. In doing so, he became the first player of the 21st century to be sent off in a first-round game. He went on to play in 21 matches and score 14 tries during the season, although it did not end well as Williams broke his forearm in a tackle on Nathan Hindmarsh during the Semi Final against the Parramatta Eels. His team lost the match and Williams was again ruled out from representing his country in the post-season 2007 Great Britain Tour. He was nominated for 'Second-Rower of the Year' at the 2007 Dally M Awards but lost the award to Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles second-rower Anthony Watmough.

Rugby union[link]

In July 2008 Williams left Australia to join French rugby union club Toulon, citing salary cap concerns in a controversial exit. In 2005 it had been suggested that the NRL's salary cap restrictions could prove problematic for trying to keep top-grade players in rugby league. Canterbury Bulldogs club officials and players were not notified of his departure until after Williams had already left for Europe. Williams was 18 months into a five year contract with the Bulldogs, which was resolved when Toulon paid a transfer fee of around £300,000. According to Bulldogs CEO Todd Greenberg, Williams was "our best player" before he "walked out".

Williams' highest honour with Toulon was finishing runners-up in the 2009-10 European Challenge Cup. On 6 June 2009 he played for the Barbarians in a tour match against Australia. His contract with Toulon ended in June 2010, and in 2010 Toulon reportedly tabled a three-year offer to Williams worth $6 million, while the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) could only come up with $550,000 per year. Williams rejected what was reportedly the largest ever offer in rugby union and opted to sign with the NZRU in a bid to play for the All Blacks. He chose to play with Canterbury in the ITM Cup, and the Crusaders in the Super Rugby competition.

Williams' Canterbury debut was against Bay of Plenty on 3 September 2010. He was named in the reserves, and 18 minutes into the game replaced second five-eight Ryan Crotty. Williams scored his first try in the ITM Cup against Taranaki, and followed up with tries against Wellington, Otago, and Counties Manukau. On 5 November, Canterbury were crowned ITM Cup Champions after defeating Waikato 33-13. On 17 October 2010 he was named in the All Black squad to tour Hong Kong and the Northern Hemisphere.

He made his highly anticipated New Zealand debut at Twickenham against England on 6 November. He started at outside centre and combined with Ma'a Nonu to form the heaviest ever All Black midfield partnership at 212 kg. In doing so, he became the first person since Karl Ifwersen in the 1920s to represent New Zealand in rugby union after first playing for New Zealand in rugby league. On 13 November 2010, in his second game for the All Blacks, Williams was awarded the man of the match for his performance against Scotland.

2011[link]

On 4 March 2011 Williams made his Super Rugby debut for the Crusaders against the Waratahs, scoring a try and setting up another. A week later he scored his second try in as many matches, against the ACT Brumbies. On 27 March he returned to Twickenham to play in his fourth match for the Crusaders against the Sharks, in the first Super Rugby match played outside of New Zealand, Australia or South Africa. On 9 April, in his fifth game for the Crusaders, Williams scored his 3rd try. On 23 April Williams, playing off the reserves bench against the Highlanders, experienced his first rugby defeat since his All Black debut more than five months earlier. A week later he scored his fourth try while playing against the Western Force. On 7 May Williams played his first rugby match in South Africa in the Crusaders victory over the Stormers at Newlands Stadium. On 29 May he played against the Queensland Reds in a match which set a new attendance record for an Australian Super Rugby game with 48,301 fans at Suncorp Stadium. On 25 June he scored his fifth try whilst playing against the Sharks in the first finals week of the Super Rugby competition. A week later against the Stormers in Cape Town he was part of the Crusaders team that became the first side to win a Super Rugby semifinal outside their home country since 1999. On 9 July Williams was part of the Crusaders team that lost to the Queensland Reds in the Grand Final held at Suncorp Stadium before a crowd of 52,113 – an Australian provincial attendance record. He ended the Super Rugby season with the most off-loads, was second to Quade Cooper for linebreak assists, was in the top ten for try assists, and was 13th overall for run metres; while no other centre came close to Williams's off-load and linebreak assist figures.

On 30 July Williams played his first home test match during the second game of the 2011 Tri Nations Series. On 9 September he played in his first Rugby World Cup in the opening match of the 2011 Rugby World Cup. A week later he scored his first test rugby tries during New Zealand’s second game, in which he played on the right wing. The match was also the first time he had played outside the centres since playing for Toulon, where he had a handful of games on the wing and in the back row. He scored his third try of the tournament against France in his second consecutive game playing on the wing. On 2 October Williams scored in a third consecutive match, whilst playing against Canada. New Zealand went on to win the 2011 Rugby World Cup, with Williams amassing a record of any Rugby World Cup of three tries as a substitute player.

On 31 October it was announced that Williams will join the Chiefs for the 2012 Super Rugby season- with his new contract allowing a "limited number" of professional boxing bouts.

2012[link]

On 25 February Williams made his Super Rugby debut for the Chiefs against the Highlanders and in early March was named as the NZRU's Teen Rugby Ambassador. On 14 April Williams scored his first try for the Chiefs while playing against the Cheetahs.

Boxing[link]

Weight	Heavyweight
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Ko	3
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On 27 May 2009, Williams made his debut as a professional boxer and defeated Garry Gurr with a Technical knockout (TKO) in the second round in Sydney. On 30 June 2010, he defeated Ryan Hogan in a bout that ended by way of TKO after only two minutes and 35 seconds. Williams described the preparation for the fight as "good off-season training" for his imminent debut for the Canterbury rugby team.

Williams fought in his third professional match against Australian Scott Lewis (on 29 January 2011 at the Gold Coast Convention Centre) in his first fight as the main event. Lewis' trainer Terry Devlin named his youngest son after Sonny Bill Williams, whom he calls a "superb athlete". Williams was initially scheduled to fight Lewis on 29 January at Newcastle Entertainment Centre. However, the bout was moved to the Gold Coast to cross-promote Williams's Super rugby team, the Crusaders, and their pre-season game against the Queensland Reds. Due to the 2010–2011 Queensland floods occurring at the same time as Williams's preparation for his bout against Scott Lewis, as well as his chief sparring partner Alex Leapai being stranded by the flooding in Gatton, Williams donated 200 tickets to his 29 January fight to flood victims. Williams won the six-round bout against Lewis by unanimous points decision. He was scored favourably 60-55, 60-55 and 60-54 by the three judges. A fan paid $3,890 for his autographed gloves from the bout, with the money going towards the Queensland flood relief fund.

Williams fought again on 5 June, when the Crusaders had a bye week. The fight, the second of three allowed under his agreement with the NZRU, took place at Trusts Stadium, Waitakere City against Tongan Alipate Liava'a. Williams won the bout by unanimous points decision, the fight scored 60-54 in his favour by all three judges. It was promoted as a Christchurch earthquake charity fight dubbed "The Clash For Canterbury". The fight became one of the single largest fundraisers for the 2011 Christchurch earthquake appeal when Sky donated its profits from the pay-per-view sales of the fight and Williams made a $NZ100,000 donation from his share of TV sales- described as "one of the biggest individual donations by an athlete to a disaster appeal".

On 8 February 2012 Williams was supposed to fight Richard Tutaki for the vacant New Zealand Professional Boxing Association (NZPBA) Heavyweight Championship title at Claudelands Arena in Hamilton, after Shane Cameron vacated it to move down to the cruiserweight division. However, it was revealed that Tutaki was facing serious criminal charges and so was subsequently dropped from the fight card. Williams's replacement opponent was then announced to be Auckland-based American Clarence Tillman III. The fight was dubbed the "Battle For The Belt". Williams went on to claim the title belt by Technical Knockout after a left hook and a series of further blows on Tillman forced referee Lance Revill to stop the fight in the first-round. Following the bout, Williams rejected an offer to join the boxing stable of fight promoter Don King.

Personal life[link]

Williams converted to Islam in 2008, and is the first Muslim to play for the All Blacks.

His younger sister Niall Williams is a New Zealand international touch football player, and won gold at the 2005 Youth World Cup and silver at the 2011 Touch Football World Cup. He is the cousin of brothers Henry and Marcus Perenara, who are former professional rugby league players, and is also the cousin of rugby union player and Chiefs teammate Tim Nanai-Williams.

Williams was in Christchurch when both the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes struck.

Controversies[link]

Williams has been involved in a number of controversial off-field incidents. The circumstances in which he left the Bulldogs created a great media debate in Australia and New Zealand and Williams was the subject of considerable criticism.

On 17 August 2005 he was charged with drink driving; the Bulldogs fined him $5,000 over the incident and he appeared in Waverley Local Court on 7 September. He was convicted of drink driving, with a blood alcohol level of .075.

In 2007, Williams was caught in a compromising position with Australian model and ironwoman Candice Falzon. A photo taken on a mobile phone of the incident was published on the ''Daily Telegraph'' website. He later apologised to his then girlfriend Genna Shaw over the incident and said he was "ashamed and embarrassed".

On 17 June 2007, Williams was caught by police urinating on a wall in an alleyway near a nightclub in Cronulla in Sydney and was given an infringement notice and fined $650. He subsequently admitted he had an alcohol problem and said he would seek professional help.

On 25 August 2010, Williams was reprimanded by his Canterbury provincial rugby team for skiing while on injury leave. A Canterbury Rugby Union spokesman confirmed he had not been given clearance to go on a skiing trip on the day of Canterbury’s NPC match against Tasman, and said he had been "reminded of his responsibilities."

Statistics [link]

NRL[link]

4 5 21 21 11

Season !! Matches !! Tries !! Goals !! Points
National Rugby League season 2004	2004	15	|	0	16
National Rugby League season 2005	2005	|	1	0	4
National Rugby League season 2006	2006	|	8	0	32
National Rugby League season 2007	2007	|	14	0	56
National Rugby League season 2008	2008	|	4	0	16

Professional boxing[link]

| style="text-align:center;" colspan="8"|5 Wins (3 knockouts), 0 Losses, 0 Draws |- style="text-align:center; background:#e3e3e3;" | style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Res. | style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Record | style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Opponent | style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Type | style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Rd., Time | style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Date | style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Location | style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Notes |- align=center |Win |5-0||align=left| Clarence Tillman III | | | |align=left| Claudelands Arena, Hamilton, Waikato Region}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |4-0||align=left| Alipate Liava'a | | | |align=left| Trusts Stadium, Waitakere City, Auckland Region}} |align=left|}} |- align=center |Win |3-0||align=left| Scott Lewis | | | |align=left| Gold Coast Convention Centre, Broadbeach, Queensland}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |2-0||align=left| Ryan Hogan | | | |align=left| Entertainment Centre, Brisbane, Queensland}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |1-0||align=left| Garry Gurr | | | |align=left| Entertainment Centre, Brisbane, Queensland}} |align=left|

Honours [link]

Individual

2004: International Newcomer of the Year

2004: World XIII 2004: Samoan Sports Association Junior Sportsman of the Year

2005: Nickelodeon Australian Kids' Choice Awards "Fave Rising Star"

References[link]

Further reading[link]

External links[link]

Sonny Bill Williams’ NRL playing statistics

Sonny's runner Essay on Williams' 2008 mid-season move by Sean Fagan

League's most hated player? by Daniel Ramus

Profile on itsrugby.co.uk

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name	Alain Soral
birth date	October 02, 1958
birth place	Aix-les-Bains, France
occupation	Essayist, journalist, film maker
nationality
alma mater	École des hautes études en sciences sociales
subject	Capitalism, communitarianism, feminism
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Alain Soral (born October 2, 1958) is a French essayist, and film maker, as well as being the author of several polemical essays. He is the brother of the actress Agnès Soral. Soral lives in the French Basque Country. Since June 2004, he has been a boxing coach. Alain Soral considers himself to be in the political "avant garde" of French society, claiming that his remarks and comments are always at first condemned and later widely accepted by the mainstream French public.

Life and career [link]

Soral was born in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie and grew up in the suburbs of Annemasse (department of Haute-Savoie), where he attended a local primary school. When Soral was about 12, his family moved to Meudon so that he could go to a reputable private Catholic high school, the Collège Stanislas de Paris. Soral spent two years doing small jobs before being accepted into the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts at 20, where he studied for two years. Soral was then taken in by a family of academics, who encouraged him to enrol at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he attended lectures given by Cornelius Castoriadis.

Following his studies, and working with Hector Obalk and Alexandre Pasche, Soral wrote a book on the sociology of trendiness: ''Les mouvements de mode expliqués aux parents'', as well as a fictionalised autobiography: ''Le Jour et la nuit ou la vie d'un vaurien''. The latter work sold badly, and this led Soral to turn away from writing for a time.

Soral then focussed on cinematic techniques, and after 2 promotional films, wrote and directed his first short film: ''Chouabadaballet, une dispute amoureuse entre deux essuie-glaces''. After a stint as a reporter in Zimbabwe, Soral wrote and directed his second short film: ''Les Rameurs, misère affective et culture physique à Carrière-sur-Seine''.

In the mean time, Soral had joined the French Communist Party. He became interested in the works of Karl Marx and other Marxist thinkers such as Georg Lukács, Henri Wallon, Lucien Goldmann and Michel Clouscard. He published ''Sociologie du Dragueur'' ("sociology of the womaniser"), his most successful sociological essay to date.

Soral performed in Catherine Breillat's 1996 film ''Parfait Amour !'', in the role of Philippe.

He then published another polemical essay: ''Vers la féminisation ? - Démontage d'un complot antidémocratique'' ("Towards feminisation? analysis of an antidemocratic plot"), and spent the following couple of years writing and directing his first full-length movie: ''Confession d'un dragueur'' ("Confessions of a womaniser"), which was a commercial and critical failure. Disgusted by what he called "a lynching", Soral gave up cinema altogether and returned to writing. He published ''Jusqu'où va-t-on descendre? - Abécédaire de la bêtise ambiante'' ("Down to where are we descending? ABC of ambient stupidity"), followed by ''Socrate à Saint-Tropez'' (2003), and ''Misères du désir'' (2004).

Soral's penultimate book, ''CHUTe ! Éloge de la disgrâce'' (subtitled ''Roman'' (novel)), was published in France on 6 April 2006.

In the 2007 he became part of the central committee of Front National, trying to place social issues in the program of the party. He left the party in the 2009.

His latest essay ''Comprendre l'Empire'' will be published in France on February 10, 2011.

Views[link]

Besides the sociological marxist analysis of the modern-day society, Soral's books tend to focus on seven main themes:

criticism of communitarianism

criticism of feminism, especially neo-feminist movements

criticism of the media and the society of spectacle in general

criticism of capitalism and USA imperialism

criticism of the mainstream culture

the Arab-Israeli conflict

the dismembering of Yugoslavia, and possibly of France

Notably, Soral has written: ''"}}

Soral's analysis of society focuses on what he terms "desire society", promoted by the media and the cult of celebrity. He has especially criticised monthly women's publications, which he believes alter the conscience and relegate women to the status of "objects".

As part of the debate on 'laïcité' in French schools, Soral claimed to prefer the Muslim veil to thong underwear.

Soral defined himself as a Marxist, and was a member of the French Communist Party in the early 90's. He left the PCF because of his opposition to the party's renunciation of revolutionary content. Soral supported left-wing dissident candidate Jean-Pierre Chevènement during the 2002 presidential election.

In 2005, Soral turned to the far-right, joining the National Front's campaign committee; he was given responsibility for social issues and for the suburbs under the authority of Marine Le Pen. Soral's personal journey has led some to compare him with Jacques Doriot, one of the neo-socialists in the early 1930s and Collaborationist under Pétain. He supported the Bloc identitaire's distribution of food in January 2006.

Since 18 November 2007, Soral has been a member of the central committee of the National Front which he left in early 2009 because of some ideas he was in conflict with (especially the menace of Islam which is not an actual threat for him).

In 2007, he founded the group "Egalité et Réconciliation", a ''think tank'' led by the ideas he developed in his books and his several interviews (an innovative mix between social and economical ideas from Left, and Values like Nation or morality from Right).

Controversy[link]

Alain Soral and "gay communitarianism"[link]

Alain Soral has denounced communitarianism as a "poison". He has been especially critical of the rise of communitarianism in the gay community, a term that he has sharply criticised, arguing that many homosexuals have nothing to do with Gay Pride ideology. For Soral, Gay Pride involves promotion of the "Gorgeous Guy" model, youth, parties, drag queens, etc., and obscures homosexuality as experienced by older or working-class homosexuals.

The association Act Up rounded on his publisher, Éditions Blanche. Act Up stated that through books like those of Alain Soral or Éric Rémès, Éditions Blanche spread negative feelings and even hatred towards homosexuals. Act Up asked the director of publication at Éditions Blanche to stop publishing books by Soral and Rémès, and vandalised Éditions Blanche's offices. The head of Éditions Blanche claimed that members of Act Up physically assaulted his executive assistant, and threatened to press charges. Act Up denied those accusations. No legal action has so far been pursued.

Alain Soral and feminism[link]

In his book ''Vers la féminisation ? Démontage d'un complot antidémocratique'', Alain Soral argues that women have always worked (in trade or agriculture, for example). To him, they would have invented feminism by tiring of their role as mothers. Soral distinguishes two types of feminism: that of the "''flippées''" ("freaked-out") such as Simone de Beauvoir, and that of the "''pétasses''" ("bitches") like Élisabeth Badinter. Soral claims that the most problematic inequality is not between men and women, but between rich and poor, and that feminists, who generally come from the upper classes of society, attempt to distract attention from this struggle.

Accusations of anti-Semitism[link]

In a report on the television programme ''Complément d'enquête'' (in its episode devoted to the controversial French humorist Dieudonné M'bala M'bala), broadcast on the French television channel France 2 on 20 September 2004, Alain Soral said:

These comments sparked much controversy and Soral estranged himself from his show-bizz friends like Thierry Ardisson, a French TV host and producer, though they knew each other for more than 25 years. Anti-Semitism is the subject of Soral's latest book: ''CHUTe ! Éloge de la disgrâce''. Soral defended himself some days later on the website oumma.com, claiming that his words had been taken out of context.

Following this programme, on 29 September 2004, Soral and several others were the victims of an attack by about twenty people wielding baseball bats, while he was signing copies of his book ''Misères du désir'' in a book shop called ''Au Pays de Cocagne'' in Paris's IIIe arrondissement. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, and the police investigation has found no leads so far. Soral himself believes the act to have been the work of an extremist Jewish group such as the Betar or the Jewish Defense League.

In a 2005 interview given to the magazine VSD, Soral announced his intellectual support for the equally controversial Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, with whom he worked on the Euro-Palestine list for the European elections of 2004, before his withdrawal led Dieudonné to do likewise. During the France 2 programme mentioned above, Dieudonné is visible in the background, listening to Soral.

Break-up of Yugoslavia and France[link]

Alain Soral believes that Yugoslavia was dismembered by the USA, which saw an opportunity to gain political ground and influence in South-Eastern Europe by arming Albanian separatist movements in the Serbian province of Kosovo.

Soral believes that community-ism in France could have a similar effect, if the French Republic fails to apply its prestigious 1905 Law of Separation of Church and State, which is enshrined in the French constitution.

According to a recent TV interview (Direct 8 / 88 minutes), Alain Soral stated; "''that today, no-one was surprised to see French presidents, prime ministers and other high French political figures meet elusively with the Jewish representing body every year in Paris, meetings that go against the laws of France and send mixed signal to the Republic''".

Soral finished by stating that such a course could only push other minorities to form political religious movement in order to be heard. According to Soral, this would be a step likely to divide France into its various religious communities, which would then weaken the independence of the country.

Bibliography[link]

''Les Mouvements de mode expliqués aux parents'', with Hector Obalk and Alexandre Pasche, Robert Laffont, 1984

reissued by France Loisirs and Le Livre de Poche

''Le Jour et la nuit ou la vie d'un vaurien, roman'', Calmann-Lévy, 1991

reissued under the title ''La vie d'un vaurien'', Éditions Blanche, 2001

''Sociologie du dragueur'', Éditions Blanche, 1996

''Vers la féminisation ? Démontage d'un complot antidémocratique'', Éditions Blanche, 1999

''Jusqu'où va-t-on descendre ? Abécédaire de la bêtise ambiante'', Éditions Blanche, 2002

reissued under the title ''Abécédaire de la bêtise ambiante'', Pocket, 2003

'' Socrate à Saint-Tropez : Texticules'', Éditions Blanche, 2003

''Misères du désir'', Éditions Blanche, 2004

''CHUTe ! Éloge de la disgrâce'', Éditions Blanche, 2006

''Comprendre l'Empire'', Editions Blanche, 2011.

''Pour en finir avec l'antisémitisme Éditions Blanche, 2012

Filmography[link]

Actor[link]

1996 : ''Parfait Amour !'' de Catherine Breillat : ''Philippe''.

Director[link]

1990 : ''Chouabadaballet, une dispute amoureuse entre deux essuie-glaces'' (5 minutes)

1993 : ''Les Rameurs, misère affective et culture physique à Carrière-sur-Seine'' (10 minutes)

2001 : ''Confession d'un dragueur'', avec Saïd Taghmaoui et Thomas Dutronc

References[link]

External links[link]

www.alainsoral.com - Site officiel - Official site (in French)

Category:1958 births Category:Living people Category:People from Aix-les-Bains Category:French sociologists Category:Collège Stanislas de Paris alumni

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