The first analyses and evaluations were carried out by sociologists: Morin/Lefoirt/Castoriadis (1968), Touraine (1969), Lacroix (1981), and Bourdieu (1984).

Historical accounts focus on May 1968 in an international context, such as Dreyfus-Armand/Gervereau (1988); the depiction of the cognitive constitution, formation, mobilization, and demobilization of the 1968 movement by Gilcher-Holtey (1994/2001); the position of the protest movement within the context of political reforms and the processes of modernization of the 1960s by Dreyfus-Armand/Frank, Levy, Zancarini (2000); and the concept of autogestion by Georgi (2003).

Regarding the longtime effects and the representation of May 1968 in public memory, see Boltanski/Chiapello (2003) and Ross (2002).

• Boltanski, Luc and Eve Chiapello. Le nouvel Esprit du Capitalisme. Paris: Gallimard, 1999.
• Bourdieu, Pierre. Homo academicus. Paris: Seuil, 1984.
• Dreyfus–Armand, Geneviève and Laurent Gervereau, eds. Mai 68: Les mouvements en France et dans le monde. Nanterre: BDIC, 1988
• Dreyfus–Armand, Geneviève and Robert Frank et al., eds. Les Années 68: Le temps de la contestation. Brussels: Complexe, 2000.
• Georgi, Frank, ed. Autogestion: La dernière utopia. Paris: Editions de l’Atelier: 2003.
• Gilcher–Holtey, Ingrid. ‘Die Phantasie an die Macht’. Mai 68 in Frankreich, 2nd ed. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2001.
• Hamon, Hervé and Patrick Rotman, eds. Génération, vol. 1: Les années de rêve, vol. 2: Les années de poudre. Paris: Seuil: 1987–1988.
• Lacroix, Bernard. L’utopie communautaire. Mai 68. Histore sociale d’une révolte, 2nd ed. Paris: PUF, 2006.
• Morin, Edgar and Claude Lefort et al. La brèche: Première réfléxions sur les événements. Paris: Fayard, 1968.
• Ross, Kristin. May ’68 and its Afterlives. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
• Touraine, Alain. Le Communisme utopique: Le mouvement de mai. Paris: Seuil, 1968.