| LC control no. | n 79148857 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Wrong, Dennis H. (Dennis Hume), 1923-2018 |
| Variant(s) | Wrong, Dennis Hume, 1923-2018 Wrong, Dennis, 1923-2018 |
| Associated country | Canada United States |
| Located | Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) Princeton (N.J.) |
| Birth date | 1923-11-15 |
| Death date | 2018-11-08 |
| Place of birth | Toronto (Ont.) |
| Place of death | Westford (Mass.) |
| Field of activity | Sociology |
| Affiliation | New York University New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997) Brown University University of Toronto |
| Profession or occupation | Sociologists College teachers Intellectuals |
| Found in | His American and Canadian viewpoints, 1955. LC database, Nov. 21, 2018 (heading: Wrong, Dennis Hume, 1923- ; usage: Dennis H. Wrong [predominant form], Dennis Wrong, Dennis Hume Wrong) New York times WWW site, viewed Nov. 21, 2018 (in obituary published Nov. 20: Dennis Wrong; b. Dennis Hume Wrong, Nov. 15, 1923, Toronto; d. Nov. 8, Westford, Mass., aged 94; Canadian sociologist who was among the last survivors of the formidable but fractious cadre of mid-20th-century sophists who argued together as the New York Intellectuals; by the time he earned his doctorate from Columbia University in 1956, he had gravitated to bohemian Greenwich Village; was teaching at Brown University when he published his benchmark "Oversocialized" essay; in 1961 he joined the faculty of the New School for Social Research (now the New School); within two years he moved to New York University, where he taught for 28 years while living in Princeton, N.J.; moved to Massachusetts about five years ago; never became an American citizen) |
| Associated language | eng |
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