Terence Hopkins

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]

Terence Hopkins
Born	Terence Kilbourne Hopkins 1928
Died	January 3, 1997(1997-01-03) (aged 68–69)
Alma mater	Columbia University
Occupation	Historical sociologist

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