From Grand Paradigm Battles to Integrated Frameworks of Class Analysis

Erik Olin Wright (Professor of Sociology at University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Erik Olin Wright is one of the world’s leading sociologists and arguably the most well-known Marxist sociologist in the United States. He is also a Past President of the American Sociological Association.

Please join us for Prof Wright’s seminar on his new book, Understanding Class (Verso, 2015).

Venue: Macquarie University, North Ryde

Location: University Library Training Room M4.01

Date and time: Monday 20 July; 2:00 – 4:00.

Entrance: Free, RSVP to: Shaun.Wilson@mq.edu.au

Author: Adam David Morton

Adam David Morton is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. He is author of Unravelling Gramsci: Hegemony and Passive Revolution in the Global Political Economy (2007); Revolution and State in Modern Mexico: The Political Economy of Uneven Development (2011), recipient of the 2012 Book Prize of the British International Studies Association (BISA) International Political Economy Group (IPEG); and co-author of Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis (2018) with Andreas Bieler. The volume Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography was published in 2022 with University of Minnesota Press, co-edited with Stuart Elden.

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From Grand Paradigm Battles to Integrated Frameworks of Class Analysis