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Erik Olin Wright
Wright lecturing at Kyiv University in 2013
Born
(1947-02-09)February 9, 1947
Berkeley, California, US
Died
January 23, 2019(2019-01-23) (aged 71)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
Spouse
Marcia Kahn Wright
(m. 1971)
Academic background
Alma mater
Harvard University (BA)
Balliol College, Oxford (BA)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)[1]
Thesis
Class Structure and Income Inequality[2] (1976)
Doctoral advisor
Arthur Stinchcombe[3]
Other advisors
Michael Reich[3]
Influences
Karl Marx
John Roemer
Academic work
Discipline
Sociology
School or tradition
Analytical Marxism
Institutions
University of Wisconsin–Madison (1976–2019)
Doctoral students
Julia Adams
Vivek Chibber
Wilmot James
César Rodríguez Garavito[4]
Karen Shire [de]
George Steinmetz
Andrew Szasz [de]
Matt Vidal
Josh Whitford
Notable students
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva[5]
Gøsta Esping-Andersen[6]
Lane Kenworthy[7]
Shamus Khan[4]
Devah Pager[4]
Main interests
Marxist class analysis
Notable ideas
Contradictory class location
real utopian sociology
Theory of historical trajectory
Website
ssc.wisc.edu/~wright
Erik Olin Wright (February 9, 1947 – January 23, 2019) was an American analytical Marxist sociologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, specializing in social stratification and in egalitarian alternative futures to capitalism. He was known for diverging from classical Marxism in his breakdown of the working class into subgroups of diversely held power and therefore varying degrees of class consciousness. Wright introduced novel concepts to adapt to this change of perspective including deep democracy and interstitial revolution.[8]
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