Erik Olin Wright

Erik Olin Wright
Erik Olin Wright
	Wright lecturing at Kyiv University in 2013
Born	February 9, 1947; Berkeley, California, US
Died	January 23, 2019 (aged 71); Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
Alma mater	Harvard University (BA); Balliol College, Oxford (BA); University of California, Berkeley (PhD);
Spouse	Marcia Kahn Wright; (m. 1971)
Academic career
Discipline	Sociology
School or tradition	Analytical Marxism
Institutions	University of Wisconsin–Madison (1976–2019)
Main interests	Marxist class analysis
Notable ideas	Contradictory class location; real utopian sociology; Theory of historical trajectory;
Thesis	Class Structure and Income Inequality (1976)
Doctoral advisor	Arthur Stinchcombe
Other advisors	Michael Reich
Doctoral students	Julia Adams; Vivek Chibber; Wilmot James; César Rodríguez Garavito; Karen Shire; George Steinmetz; Andrew Szasz; Matt Vidal; Josh Whitford;
Notable students	Eduardo Bonilla-Silva; Gøsta Esping-Andersen; Lane Kenworthy; Shamus Khan; Devah Pager;
Influences	Karl Marx; John Roemer;
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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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
Alma mater	Harvard University (BA) Balliol College, Oxford (BA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD)^[7]
Spouse	Marcia Kahn Wright (m. 1971)

Academic career
Discipline	Sociology
School or tradition	Analytical Marxism
Institutions	University of Wisconsin–Madison (1976–2019)
Main interests	Marxist class analysis
Notable ideas	Contradictory class location real utopian sociology Theory of historical trajectory
Thesis	Class Structure and Income Inequality^[1] (1976)
Doctoral advisor	Arthur Stinchcombe^[2]
Other advisors	Michael Reich^[2]
Doctoral students	Julia Adams Vivek Chibber Wilmot James César Rodríguez Garavito^[3] Karen Shire [de] George Steinmetz Andrew Szasz [de] Matt Vidal Josh Whitford
Notable students	Eduardo Bonilla-Silva^[4] Gøsta Esping-Andersen^[5] Lane Kenworthy^[6] Shamus Khan^[3] Devah Pager^[3]
Influences	Karl Marx John Roemer

Website	ssc.wisc.edu/~wright