Sorokin and Civilization: A Centennial Assessment

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Sorokin and Civilization is a festschrift to Pitirim Sorokin, one of the most famed figures of twentieth-century sociology and first president of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations (ISCSC). He was a giant of the twentieth-century stage in the larger world as well. He debated with Trotsky, exchanged ideas with Pavlov, and received a personal invitation to meet with President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia. His principled dissent from sociological orthodoxy frequently anticipated that ...
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Sorokin and Civilization is a festschrift to Pitirim Sorokin, one of the most famed figures of twentieth-century sociology and first president of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations (ISCSC). He was a giant of the twentieth-century stage in the larger world as well. He debated with Trotsky, exchanged ideas with Pavlov, and received a personal invitation to meet with President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia. His principled dissent from sociological orthodoxy frequently anticipated that of Charles Wright Mills, Alfred McClung Lee, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. He was, to paraphrase Joseph Ford, a scholar among statesmen and a statesmen among scholars.
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Sixteen essays written in homage to sociologist Sorokin, first president of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations (ISCSC) who exchanged ideas with Trotsky, Pavlov, and anticipated the work of Mills and Solzehnitsyn. The contributors offer up reminisces of the Sorokin's life and work, examine the challenges he made to orthodox sociology, and discuss his dialecticism and the applications of his theory to civilization and philosophy. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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  • ISBN-13: 9781560002475
  • Publisher: Transaction Publishers
  • Publication date: 1/1/1995
  • Pages: 258

Table of Contents

Preface
1 Sorokin's Life and Work 3
2 Sorokin Remembered 15
3 The Sorokin-Merton Correspondence on "Puritanism, Pietism, and Science," 1933-34 21
4 Snakes and Ladders: Parsons and Sorokin at Harvard 31
5 Sorokin and American Sociology: The Dynamics of a Moral Career in Science 45
6 Sorokin's Challenge to Modernity 65
7 Sorokin's Methodology: Integralism as the Key 83
8 Sorokin as Dialectician 93
9 Sorokin's Concept of Immanent Change 105
10 Civilizational Worldview as an Aggregate of Intuitions 125
11 Sorokin versus Toynbee on Civilization 141
12 Applying Sorokin's Typology 159
13 An Empirical Assessment of Sorokin's Theory of Change 171
14 A Study of Generational Fluctuations in Philosophical Beliefs 187
15 Sorokin's Vision of Altruistic Love as a Bridge to Human Consensus 201
16 Transitions, Revolutions, and Wars 215
Contributors 227
Bibliography 237
Name Index 251
Subject Index 255
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