Talcott Parsons

Dennis Hume Wrong was born in Toronto, Canada on November 15, 1923. During World War II, he was assigned to the Army Reserve because of a foot condition and helped harvest wheat in western Canada. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto in 1945 and a doctorate in sociology from Columbia University in 1956. He taught sociology at Brown University and the New School for Social Research before joining the faculty at New York University, where he taught for 28 years.

He wrote several books including Population and Society; The Oversocialized Conception of Man; Power: Its Forms, Bases and Uses; and The Problem of Order: What Unites and Divides Society. He died of cardiac arrest on November 8, 2018 at the age of 94.

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