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Dennis Wrong

Dennis Hume Wrong
Born (1923-11-15) November 15, 1923 (age 93)
Toronto, Ontario
Employer New York University
Known for Sociologist
Spouse(s) Elaine Gale Wrong
Jacqueline Conrath
Children 1

Dennis Hume Wrong (born November 15, 1923) is a Canadian-born American sociologist, and emeritus professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology at New York University.

The grandson of George Mackinnon Wrong, Canadian historian, and son of Humphrey Hume Wrong, Canadian Ambassador to the United States. He is also the father of documentary filmmaker Terence Wrong.

Wrong is the author of several books, including two essay collections containing articles first published in cultural, intellectual, political and scholarly journals in the United States, Canada, and Britain.

He taught sociology at Princeton University, Rutgers, Brown University, the University of Toronto, the New School for Social Research Graduate Faculty, and for most of his career at New York University. Wrong is a permanent editor at Dissent (magazine). He is currently retired and lives in Princeton.

The Dennis Wrong Award is given for the best graduate paper of the year by New York University's sociology department.

In 1968 Wrong began to write on power (social and political) with a contribution to American Journal of Sociology. The article argued that power is not asymmetrical except in cases of physical violence. It distinguished power from control and potential from possible powers. He cited Bertrand Russell (1938) Power: a new social analysis and Nelson W. Polsby (1963) Community Power and Social Theory.


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