Erik Olin Wright
Erik Olin Wright | |
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Wright lecturing at Kyiv University in 2013 | |
| Born | February 9, 1947 Berkeley, California, US |
| Died | January 23, 2019 (aged 71) |
| Spouse |
Marcia Kahn Wright
(m. 1971) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | Class Structure and Income Inequality (1976) |
| Doctoral advisor | Arthur Stinchcombe |
| Other advisors | Michael Reich |
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| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Sociology |
| School or tradition | Analytical Marxism |
| Institutions | University of Wisconsin–Madison (1976–2019) |
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| Main interests | Marxist class analysis |
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| Website | ssc |
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.