Dennis Wrong

Biographic Data

ID3624549
NAMEDennis Wrong
GIVEN NAMESDennis
FAMILY NAMEWrong
SIGNATUREWRONG D
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS19
TOTAL CITATIONS12
WORKS AS AUTHOR17
WORKS AS EDITOR2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1964
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Authors of Their Own Lives

    Reinhard Bendix, J Bernard et al.BOOKAuthors of Their Own Lives2023

  • Reflections on a Politically Skeptical Era

    Dennis H Wrong, Dennis WrongEDITORBOOKReflections on a Politically…2019

    All of the essays included in the present volume were written between 1995 and 2001. This attests to the timeliness and relevance of Dennis H. Wrong's writings. He notes that the mid-twentieth-century disposition to believe that politics fundamentally consisted of clashes between totalistic worldviews, such as communism, socialism, capitalism, fascism, nationalism, internationalism, and a cluster of "isms," may have been historically transitional…

  • Power

    Dennis H Wrong, Dennis WrongBOOKPower2017

    In one grand effort, this is an anatomy of power, a history of the ways in which it has been defined, and a study of its forms (force, manipulation, authority, and persuasion), its bases (individual and collective resources, political mobilization), and its uses. The issues that Dennis Wrong addresses range from the philosophical and ethical to the psychological and political. Much of the work is punctuated with careful examples from history. Whi…

  • The Persistence of the Particular

    Dennnis H Wrong, Dennis WrongEDITORBOOKPersistence of the Particular2017

    Definitions of human beings as "symbolic animals" emphasize our capacity to form theories and general laws that can be applied to common social experience. This is balanced by an equally strong will to define events and conditions that are particular to specific times, places, and individuals. In this volume, Dennis H. Wrong argues that the scientific standard of universal laws and propositions has only limited relevance to human historical pheno…

  • Reflections on a Politically Skeptical Era

    Dennis WrongBOOKReflections on a Politically…2003

  • The Oversocialized Conception of Man

    Open AccessAxel Van Den Berg, Dennis H Wrong et al.ARTICLEThe Canadian Journal of Sociology2001Cited by: 2

  • Economy and Society

    Open AccessDennis H Wrong, Dennis WrongARTICLEAmerican Journal of Economics and…2000

    This comment is in response to Frederic L. Pryor (2000). “The Millennium Survey: How Economists View the U.S. Economy in the 21 st Century.7rdquo; The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 59 (January), pp. 3‐33

  • Adversarial identities and multiculturalism

    Open AccessDennis H Wrong, Dennis WrongARTICLESociety2000Cited by: 2

  • Keeping Order

    David Lockwood, Dennis H Wrong et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1994

  • The Present Condition of American Sociology. A Review Article

    Open AccessDennis H Wrong, Dennis WrongARTICLEComparative Studies in Society…1993Cited by: 2References: 2

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  • The Lonely Crowd revisited

    Open AccessDennis H Wrong, Dennis WrongARTICLESociological Forum1992Cited by: 5References: 3

  • Disaggregating the Idea of Capitalism

    Open AccessDennis H Wrong, Dennis WrongARTICLETheory Culture & Society1992Cited by: 1References: 2

  • Mapping Power

    Steven Aufrecht, Robert A Caro et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1985

  • Power

    Open AccessJennie M Hornosty, Jennie Hornosty et al.REVIEWThe Canadian Journal of Sociology1981

    In one grand effort, this is an anatomy of power, a history of the ways in which it has been defined, and a study of its forms (force, manipulation, authority, and persuasion), its bases (individual and collective resources, political mobilization), and its uses. The issues that Dennis Wrong addresses range from the philosophical and ethical to the psychological and political. Much of the work is punctuated with careful examples from history. Whi…

  • Two Cheers for Skeptical Sociology

    Bennett M Berger, Dennis H Wrong et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1979

  • Max Weber

    David Little, Dennis H Wrong et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1972

  • Max Weber

    John James, Dennis H Wrong et al.ARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1971

  • Max Weber

    Arnold Birenbaum, Dennis H Wrong et al.ARTICLESocial Forces1971

  • Replies to conformity

    Open AccessDennis H Wrong, Dennis Wrong et al.ARTICLETrans-action1964