SOCIOLOGIST

Erik Olin Wright

1947 - 2019

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erik Olin Wright has received more than 287,992 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Erik Olin Wright is the 57th most popular sociologist (up from 59th in 2019), the 5,272nd most popular biography from United States (up from 6,340th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Sociologist.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Erik Olin Wright ranks 57 out of 79. Before her are Basil Bernstein, Ernest Burgess, T. H. Marshall, Robert N. Bellah, Gøsta Esping-Andersen, and Raewyn Connell. After her are Jeffrey C. Alexander, Claus Offe, George Ritzer, Peter Blau, Michael Mann, and Henri Hubert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Erik Olin Wright ranks 400. Before her are Takeshi Urata, Danilo Popivoda, Małgorzata Braunek, Tadahiko Ueda, Kakhi Asatiani, and Kembo Uba Kembo. After her are Dave Alexander, Michèle Torr, George Kobayashi, Rémi Brague, Afeni Shakur, and Luis Ángel González Macchi. Among people deceased in 2019, Erik Olin Wright ranks 261. Before her are Charles Gérard, Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Dr. John, Michael Gielen, Hannelore Elsner, and Lydia Wideman. After her are Lyndon LaRouche, Sergei Yursky, Piero Tosi, Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly, Kornel Morawiecki, and Elina Bystritskaya.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Erik Olin Wright ranks 5,272 out of 20,380. Before her are Taraji P. Henson (1970), Kid Ory (1886), Timothy D. Snyder (1969), Toni Braxton (1967), Jon Brion (1963), and Ronnie Radke (1983). After her are Vanessa Hudgens (1988), William Windom (1923), Peter Lynch (1944), Virginia Grey (1917), Russell Banks (1940), and Sacheen Littlefeather (1946).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In United States

Among sociologists born in United States, Erik Olin Wright ranks 20. Before her are Seymour Martin Lipset (1922), James Samuel Coleman (1926), Edwin Sutherland (1883), Randall Collins (1941), George C. Homans (1910), and Robert N. Bellah (1927). After her are Jeffrey C. Alexander (1947), George Ritzer (1940), Robert Nisbet (1913), Arlie Russell Hochschild (1940), Theda Skocpol (1947), and Rodney Stark (1934).

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