The École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) is a French institution of higher learning, a Grand Établissement within the system of Grandes Écoles. It was given autonomy from the École Practique des Hautes Études, of which it had since 1947 been the Sixth Section ("sciences économiques et sociales"), in 1975. It functions as a research, teaching, and degree-granting institution. Its students, admitted by dossier, are those undertaking their first year of doctoral studies. Principal subject areas includes history, linguistics, philosophy, philology, sociology, anthropology, economics, demographics, geography, archelogy, psychology, law, and mathematics, although the institution is highly supportive of interdiscinplinarity within these areas. The grandes écoles (French for great schools) of France are higher education establishments outside of the mainstream framework of the public universities. ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Research is an active, diligent and systematic process of inquiry in order to discover, interpret or revise facts, events, behaviours, or theories, or to make practical applications with the help of such facts, laws or theories. ... In education, teachers are those who teach students or pupils, often a course of study or a practical skill. ... A history resource for kids -Chronology of Events in History, Mythology, and Folklore. ... Broadly conceived, linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and a linguist is someone who engages in this study. ... The term Philosophy derives from a combination of the Greek words philos meaning love and sophia meaning wisdom. ... Philology is the study of ancient texts and languages. ... Sociology is the study of the social lives of humans, groups, and societies, sometimes defined as the study of social interactions. ... Anthropology (from the Greek word άνθρωπος = human) consists of the study of humankind (see genus Homo). ... Economics (deriving from the Greek words οίκω [okos], house, and νέμω [nemo], rules hence household management) is the social science that studies the allocation of scarce resources to satisfy unlimited wants. ... Demographics comprises selected characteristics of a population (age and income distribution and trends, mobility, educational attainment, home ownership and employment status, for instance) for purposes of social studies. ... Psychology (ancient Greek: psyche = soul and logos = word) is the study of behaviour, mind and thought. ... Law (a loanword from Old Norse lag), in politics and jurisprudence, is a set of rules or norms of conduct which mandate, proscribe or permit specified relationships among people and organizations, provide methods for ensuring the impartial treatment of such people, and provide punishments for those who do not follow... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Mathematics Wikiquote quotations related to: Mathematics Look up Mathematics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikimedia Commons has more media related to: Mathematics Bogomolny, Alexander: Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles. ...

Its web site can be found at:

http://www.ehess.fr/