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Dennis Hume Wrong (born November 15, 1923) is an American sociologist, and emeritus professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology at New York University.〔http://sociology.fas.nyu.edu/object/sociology.people.emeritusfaculty〕 He is 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 has 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 also 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://sociology.fas.nyu.edu/object/soc.departmentalawards )〕 ==Work== In 1968 Wrong began to write on power (social and political) with a contribution to American Journal of Sociology.〔D. Wrong (1968) "Some problems in defining social power", ''American Journal of Sociology'' 73(6): 673–81〕 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''. Then in 1979 Wrong published ''Power: its forms, bases, and uses'' which was widely reviewed. For example, Jennie M. Hornosty criticized the book for its lack of discussion of class conflict, digression into peripheral issues, and weakness on the social-structural variants of power.〔Jennie M. Hornosty (1981) ''Canadian Journal of Sociology'' 6(2)〕 Michael Mann criticized it for incompleteness, though he praised the first 159 pages. In Mann's view Wrong's view descends into an analysis of aggregates of individuals at the end. He expected more description of the complex and interpenetrating relations between classes, states, churches, communities, and bureaucracies.〔Michael Mann (1983) ''American Journal of Sociology'' 88(5): 1030–2〕 Wrong is best known for the introduction of a journal piece ''"Oversocialized conception of Man in Modern sociology"''. This summarized his critique of the limitations of structural functionalism employed by Talcott Parsons. He introduced Erving Goffman to sociology at university in Canada. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dennis Wrong」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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