Erik Olin Wright

Erik Olin Wright (born in 1947, with Berkeley in California), is a American Sociologue . Its work treats mainly study of the Social classes, with like objective modernizing the concept Marxiste of class.

Wright stressed the importance of the control of the means of production in the definition of a class, while, in same time, it tries to take into account the case of the qualified employees, being consequently inspired by the concept Webérien of authority. According to Wright, the employees with required capacities are in a contradictory class hiring (according to the term which it uses in its major work Classes, which one could translate by a contradictory position of class) because, although they is not capitalists, they are more invaluable to the owner of the means of production than the less qualified workers, the owner of the means of production thus tries to buy their honesty in their giving shares of his companies and by equipping them with an authority on his colleagues. Thus the skilled workers tend to being closer to the interests of the " patrons" that with those of the others paid.

In its work, Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class Analysis (ED. Cambridge, 1997), theoretical but so empirical work, hold a particular place. In this work, it uses the data collected in several industrialized countries, including the United States. He is professor of sociology to the Université of Wisconsin to Madison.

External bonds

• the site of Erik Olin Wright (www.ssc.wisc.edu)

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