Jean-Claude Chamboredon (October 1938 – 30 March 2020) was a French sociologist.

He graduated from the École normale supérieure in Paris, and subsequently worked alongside Pierre Bourdieu until 1981. With Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron, Chamboredon wrote Le Métier de sociologue in 1967. In addition to his various sociological works, Chamboredon translated Basil Bernstein's Langage et classes sociales.

Publications

  • Un art moyen. Essai sur les usages sociaux de la photographie (1965)
  • Le Métier de sociologue (1967)
  • Développement économique et changement social. Classe sociale et changement social (1974)
  • La philosophie de l'histoire et les sciences sociales (2005)
  • Jeunesses et classes sociales (2015)
  • Territoires, culture et classes sociales (2019)