Erik Olin Wright

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Erik Olin Wright (2011)

Erik Olin Wright (born February 9, 1947 in Berkeley , California - † January 23, 2019 ) was an American sociologist and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison .

Life

Wright's degrees were a BA in Social Studies from Harvard College (1968) and a BA in History from Balliol College , Oxford (1970) and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley (1976). From 1976 he taught as an assistant professor , from 1980 as an associate professor and since 1983 as a full professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Wright's main area of ​​research was Marxist class theory . What was original about his class theory was that he did not perceive dependent employees as powerless in relation to the exploiting class, but rather gave them scope for shaping their employment due to their “marketplace bargaining power” and “workplace bargaining power”.

From 1991 he worked on the Real Utopias Project . Seven volumes have been published so far.

In 2010, Wright was elected the 103rd President of the American Sociological Association . He held this office from 2011 to August 2012.

He described the last few weeks before his death on January 23, 2019 in a blog .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Politics of Punishment: A Critical Analysis of Prisons in America. Harper and Row and Harper Colophon Books, New York 1973.
  • Class, Crisis and the State. New Left Books, London 1978.
  • Class Structure and Income Determination. Academic Press, New York 1979.
  • Classes. Verso, London 1985.
  • The Debate on Classes. Verso, London 1990.
  • Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class Analysis. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  • as editor: Approaches to Class Analysis . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2005.
  • Envisioning Real Utopias. Verso, London 2010.
    • Real utopias. Ways out of capitalism. Translated by Max Henninger. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-29792-6 .
  • with Joel Rogers: American Society: How it really works. Norton, New York 2011.
  • How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century. Verso Books, London 2019, ISBN 978-1-78873-605-3 .
    • Left anti-capitalism in the 21st century. What it means to be a democratic socialist. Translated by Tim Jack and Daniela Kreuels. VSA Verlag, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-96488-006-2 .

Web links

Obituaries

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eric O. Wright: Working-Class Power, Capitalist Class-Interests, and Class-Compromise . In: American Journal of Sociology. Vol. 105, Heft 4, 2000, pp. 957-1002, here p. 962.
  2. ↑ Erik's CaringBridge Site
  3. ↑ Verso. Retrieved July 17, 2019 .
  4. ^ Left anti-capitalism in the 21st century. Retrieved July 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Wright, Erik Olin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Berkeley , California , USA
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 2019