Terence Hopkins
Terence Hopkins | |
|---|---|
| Born | Terence Kilbourne Hopkins 1928 |
| Died | January 3, 1997 (aged 68–69) |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Occupation | Historical sociologist |
Terence Kilbourne Hopkins (1928 – January 3, 1997) was an American historical sociologist who collaborated with Immanuel Wallerstein, Giovanni Arrighi and others on world systems theory. Among world systems scholars, he was "considered the specialist [...] on all methodological questions".[1]
Life
Hopkins gained a PhD in sociology in Columbia University, where he taught from 1958 to 1968. He worked there in a research group led by Karl Polanyi.[2] From 1968 to 1970, he was visiting professor at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad. In 1970, he founded a graduate program in sociology at Binghamton University and taught there until retirement in 1995. He helped found the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton.[1] On the occasion of his retirement, his students came from all over the world to hold a celebration conference; it was published as Mentoring, Methods, and Movements, highlighting his central contributions. Hopkins argued that the standard Marxist interpretation of class formation and state formation needed to be reworked, Christopher Chase-Dunn wrote.[3]
Works
- The Exercise of Influence in Small Groups, 1964
- (ed. with Immanuel Wallerstein) Processes of the World-system, 1979
- (with Immanuel Wallerstein) World-systems Analysis: Theory and Methodology, 1982
- (ed. with Immanuel Wallerstein) The Age of Transition: Trajectory of the World-system 1945–2025, 1996
References
- ^ a b Immanuel Wallerstein, Obituary: Terence Kilbourne Hopkins, ASA Footnotes 25:3 (March 1997), p. 15.
- ^ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255574745_Paradigm_Regained_The_Rules_Of_Wallerstein's_World-System_Method (p. 161)
- ^ https://academic.oup.com/sf/article-abstract/59/4/1323/1911483