Our website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to our visitors.
Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker.
Oliver Cox
Oliver Cox | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | August 24, 1901 Port of Spain, Trinidad |
| Died | September 4, 1974 (aged 73) |
| Nationality | Trinidadian-American |
| Education |
|
| Notable work |
|
Oliver Cromwell Cox (24 August 1901 – 4 September 1974) was a Trinidadian-American sociologist. He was born into a middle-class family in Port of Spain, Trinidad and emigrated to the United States in 1919.[1]
Cox was often misrepresented as a Marxist due to his focus on class conflict and capitalism; however, he fundamentally disagreed with Marx's analysis of capitalism. One of Cox's points of contention with Marx was to argue that foreign trade, and not commodity production for the private accumulation of capital, was the primary driving force in capitalist development.[2]
Cox was a founder of the world-systems perspective, which posits a socioeconomic system that encompasses part or all of the globe.[3] Additionally, he was an important scholar of racism and its relationship to the development and spread of global capitalism, and a member of the Chicago School of Sociology.[4]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Ency_comwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Watson, Hilbourne A. (2014). "Oliver Cromwell Cox's understanding of capitalism and the problem of his materialist perspective". Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes. 39 (3): 382–402. doi:10.1080/08263663.2014.1013287. ISSN 0826-3663. JSTOR 26588039. S2CID 142941993.
- ^ Wallerstein, Immanuel (2000). "Oliver C. Cox As World-Systems Analyst". Research in Race and Ethnic Relations. 11: 173–183.
- ^ Cheseboro, Anthony (1998). "Conflict and Continuity: E. Franklin Frazier, Oliver C. Cox and the Chicago School of Sociology". Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. 92 (2): 150–172.
Previous Page Next Page
