Erik Olin Wright

1947 - 2019

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship: United States of America

native language: English

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: University of California, Berkeley, Harvard College, Balliol College

occupation: sociologist, university teacher

award received: American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, Honorary Doctorate of University of Buenos Aires

position held: President of the American Sociological Association

official 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)