15 Facts About Michael Hechter

Michael Hechter is an American sociologist and Foundation Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University.

Michael Hechter is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington.

Michael Hechter is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an elected member of the Society for Comparative Research.

Michael Hechter was a fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation, and twice a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

Michael Hechter was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he attended the Putney School and graduated from Worcester Academy.

Michael Hechter joined the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington in 1970, where he stayed until 1984.

Michael Hechter then took a professorship at the University of Arizona where he remained for a full decade before moving to the joining the University of Oxford as a fellow of New College and a University Lecturer in Sociology.

From 1996 to 1999, Michael Hechter returned to the United States and resumed teaching at the University of Arizona.

Michael Hechter then joined Arizona State University as a Foundation Professor in School of Global Studies, later becoming a Foundation Professor of Political Science in 2013 and a core faculty member of the Center for the Study of Social Dynamics and Complexity.

Michael Hechter was a professor of sociology at the University of Copenhagen from 2015 to 2017.

Michael Hechter currently serves on the editorial boards of Man and the Economy, Ethnopolitics, Nations and Nationalism and Legal Theory.

Michael Hechter has edited a number of special issues of journals on core sociological matters.

Michael Hechter produced an issue of Theory and Society in 1994 on "Theoretical Implications of the Demise of State Socialism" with Ivan Szelenyi.

In 1987, Michael Hechter wrote Principles of Group Solidarity, which argued that the solidarity of any group is determined by the conjunction of individuals' dependence on the group for access to collective goods, as well as the group's capacity to monitor and sanction members for their compliance to corporate obligations.

Beyond that, Michael Hechter has written extensively on a variety of social phenomena.