Oliver Cox, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Oliver Cox

American sociologist

Date of Birth: 25-Oct-1901

Place of Birth: Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Date of Death: 04-Sep-1974

Profession: sociologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Oliver Cromwell Cox (24 August 1901 – 4 September 1974) was a Trinidadian-American sociologist noted for his early Marxist viewpoint on fascism.
He was a founding father of the world-systems perspective, 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 He was the son of William Raphael and Virginia Blake Cox.
His father worked as a captain of a revenue schooner, and later on as a customs and excise officer.