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and others on world systems theory. Amongst world systems scholars, he was "considered the specialist ..on all methodological questions".

Obituary: Terence Kilbourne Hopkins
''ASA Footnotes'' 25:3 (March 1997), p.15

Life

Hopkins gained a PhD in sociology in

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, where he taught from 1958 to 1968. From 1968 to 1970, he was visiting professor at the University of the West Indies in

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. 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. 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.

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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hopkins, Terence K 1928 births 1997 deaths American sociologists World system scholars Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni American expatriates in Trinidad and Tobago Binghamton University faculty