Sorokin and civilization : a centennial assessment
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Sorokin and civilization : a centennial assessment
Transaction Publishers, 1995
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Festschrift for Pitirim Sorokin
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 statesman among scholars.
The volume is divided into four parts: "A Life Remembered"; "Sorokin as Gadfly"; "Sorokin's Methodology"; and, "Applying Sorokin's Theories." Contributors and chapters to this volume include: "Sorokin's Life and Work" by Barry V. Johnston; "The Sorokin-Merton Correspondence on Puritanism, Pietism, and Science" by Robert K. Merton; "Sorokin and American Sociology: The Dynamics of a Moral Career in Science" by Lawrence T. Nichols; "Sorokin as Dialectician" by Robert C. Hanson; "Applying Sorokin's Typology" by Michel P. Richard; and "Transitions, Revolutions, and Wars" by William Eckhardt. Sorokin and Civilization will appeal to all those with an interest in cultural and historical processes and the life and theories of Sorokin.
Table of Contents
Preface
Roger Williams Wescott
Part I: A Life Remembered
1. Sorokin's Life and Work
Barry V. Johnston
2. Sorokin Remembered
Edward A. Tiryakian
3. The Sorokin-Merton Correspondence on "Puritanism, Pietism, and Science," 1933-34
Robert K. Merton
Part II: Sorokin as Gadfly
4. Snakes and Ladders: Parsons and Sorokin at Harvard
William Buxton
5. Sorokin and American Sociology: The Dynamics of a Moral Career in Science
Lawrence T. Nichols
6. Sorokin's Challenge to Modernity
Palmer C. Talbutt
Part III: Sorokin's Methodology
7. Sorokin's Methodology: Integralism as the Key
Joseph B. Ford
8. Sorokin as Dialectician
Robert C. Hanson
9. Sorokin's Concept of Immanent Change
Robert G. Perrin
10. Civilizational Worldview as an Aggregate of Intuitions
David Richardson
Part IV: Applying Sorokin's Theories
11. Sorokin versus Toynbee on Civilization
David Wilkinson
12. Applying Sorokin's Typology
Michel P. Richard
13. An Empirical Assessment of Sorokin's Theory of Change
George A. Hillery, Jr.
Susan V. Mead
Robert G. Turner, Jr.
14. A Study of Generational Fluctuations in Philosophical Beliefs
Dean Keith Simonton
15. Sorokin's Vision of Altruistic Love as a Bridge to Human Consensus
Paul V. Crosbie
Samuel P. Oliner
16. Transitions, Revolutions, and Wars
William Eckhardt
Contributors
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
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