12 Facts About Dennis Wrong

Dennis Hume Wrong was a Canadian-born American sociologist and professor in the Department of Sociology at New York University.

Dennis Wrong first studied in Toronto, then in Washington and Geneva where his father was a diplomat.

Dennis Wrong harvested wheat during WWII and earned a bachelor's degree from University of Toronto in 1945.

Dennis Wrong lived in Greenwich Village, NYC, socializing with novelists and other intellectuals and publishing in various journals.

Dennis Wrong 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.

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

In 1968 Dennis Wrong began to write on power with a contribution to American Journal of Sociology.

Dennis Wrong cited Bertrand Russell Power: a new social analysis and Nelson W Polsby Community Power and Social Theory.

In Mann's view Dennis Wrong's view descends into an analysis of aggregates of individuals at the end.

Dennis Wrong expected more description of the complex and interpenetrating relations between classes, states, churches, communities, and bureaucracies.

Dennis Wrong described his 1994 book The Problem of Order as "a sequel to, or enlargement upon" his 1961 article.

Dennis Wrong was the father of documentary filmmaker Terence Wrong, the grandson of George Mackinnon Wrong, Canadian historian, and son of Humphrey Hume Wrong, Canadian Ambassador to the United States.