Erik Olin Wright

Classes:

Soc 125 Contemporary American Society
Soc 621 Class, State and Ideology: An introduction to Social Science in the Marxist Tradition
Soc 924 Theories of the State
Soc 929 Seminar in Class Analysis: Envisioning Real Utopias

Professor of Sociology
8112D Sewell Social Sciences
(608) 262-0068
wright@ssc.wisc.edu
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Selected Publications:
Wright, Erik Olin and Archon Fung. 2003. Deepening Democracy: Innovations in empowered participatory governance, Verso.

Wright, Erik Olin. 2002. "The Shadow of Exploitation in Max Weber's Class Analysis." American Sociological Review.

Wright, Erik Olin and Michael Buawoy. 2001. "Sociological Marxism." Handbook of Sociological Theory. Jonathan Turner ed., Plenum Press.

Wright, Erik Olin. 2000. "Working-Class Power, Capitalist-Class Interests and Class Compromise." American Journal of Sociology, January, 105(4):957-1002.

Wright, Erik Olin. 1997. Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class Analysis. Cambridge University Press.

Wright, Erik Olin. 1994. Interrogating Inequality. London: Verso.

Wright, Erik Olin, Elliott Sober and Andrew Levine. 1992. Reconstructing Marxism: essays on Explanation and the Theory of History. London: Verso.

Education:
Ph.D., Sociology, University of California-Berkeley, 1976

Areas of Interest:
Class Analysis and Historical Change
Economic Sociology
Gender
General Social Theory
Political Sociology

Affiliations:
Sociology
Institute for Research on Poverty
Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program