Person in history
Dennis Wrong
Dennis Wrong, Canadian-born American sociologist (born 1923)
Life at a glance
- Died
- 2018 · November 8
Their story
Who they were
Dennis Hume Wrong was a Canadian-born American sociologist and professor in the Department of Sociology at New York University.
Path and career
Work Wrong's 1961 article, "The Oversocialized Conception of Man in Modern Sociology," criticized the limitations of structural functionalism employed by Talcott Parsons . Parsons, in Wrong's view, had eliminated "the resistance...to the demands of society offered by the Freudian id and even by the rational calculating ego." [ 1 ] In 1968 Wrong began to write on power (social and political) with a contribution to American Journal of Sociology . [ 2 ]
Why this date
Dennis Wrong appears on our November 8 calendar for 2018 as a death entry.
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Questions about Dennis Wrong
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November 8 2018.
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