Pitirim A Sorokin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pitirim A Sorokin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pitirim A |
| FAMILY NAME | Sorokin |
| SIGNATURE | SOROKIN P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 132 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 610 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 132 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1925 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Some of the New Works in the Field of "Philosophical" and "Empirical-Inductive" Sociology: Consolidated Review
Selected Business Correspondence of Sociologists P.A. Sorokin and R. Thurnwald (1928–1954)
Otmar Spann. Crisis in Political Economy (Supplemented Report): A Review
Experiments in Sociology. On the Degree of Expression of Some Expressions of Solidarity (Altruism) in Deed and in Word in Relation to Social Distance
Productivity and Work Incedentives (Experimental Research on 3–4 and 13–14 Year Old Children)
Sociology as a Special Science
“Foreword” to the First American edition of “Community and Society” by F. Tönnies. Transl. from Eng., notes and comments by N.A. Golovin
The currently being prepared for publication “Foreword” to F. Tönnies’ work “Community and Society” was written by Harvard University professor P.A. Sorokin (1889–1968), who was a Russian/American sociologist. It was first published alongside the English translation of Tönnies’ book, issued in New York back in 1940. According to P.A. Sorokin, Tönnies’ community and society dichotomy represents a universal categorical description of two opposing f…
Social and Cultural Dynamics: A Study of Change in Major Systems of Art, Truth, Ethics, Law, and Social Relationships
This classic work is a revised and abridged version, in a single volume, of the work which more than any other catapulted Pitirim Sorokin into being one of the most famed figures of twentieth-century sociology. Its original publication occurred before World War II. This revised version, written some twenty years later, reflects a postwar environment. Earlier than most, Sorokin took the consequences of the breakdown of colonialism into account in …
Självmordet som samhällsfenomen
Pitirim Sorokin: Suicide as a societal phenomenonSorokin’s early work on suicide, published 1913, is heavily influenced by Durkheim. However, already at this stage the great sociologist-in-making is evident. There are important differences between Sorokin’s way of discussing the causes of suicide and that of Durkheim. In particular, Sorokin is aware of the specific features of Russia, including acute poverty, misery and hunger as well as social d…
On the Practice of Sociology
Pitirim Sorokin rose from a peasant childhood in Russia to become a major figure in the history of sociology. However, he was considered both a pioneer and an outcast. This text includes essays by this controversial thinker which range from his early Russian years to his final work in the 1960s. His early American works are considered to have opened new vistas in rural sociology, social stratification, and theory, and won him the chairmanship of …
Sorokin and the Workings of Culturative Symbolics
Hunger as a Factor in Human Affairs
Hunger as a Factor in Human Affairs
Hunger as a Factor in Human Affairs
Sociedad, cultura y personalidad
Man and Society in Calamity: The Effects of War, Revolution, Famine, Pestilence upon Human Mind, Behavior, Social Organization and Cultural Life
The Essential Characteristics of the Russian Nation in the Twentieth Century
The Russian nation emerged as a distinct socio cultural system with the establishment of the Kievan or Va rangian state in the middle of the ninth century. This nation from that time to the present has remained the main group whose activities have largely determined the nature of the sub sequent character of the Russian state, culture, and historical destiny. Among the essential characteristics of the Russian nation are: its comparatively long li…
Sociological Theories of Today
Secondly, this volume marks an evolution in Sorokin's own approach to sociological theory. His earlier work dealt with theory in terms of a school of thought, and for this purpose he used a scheme of classification which was sometimes arbitrary and often misleading. In this volume he employs a new scheme which places the theory in a context more descriptive of its real character. In another very important respect there is a significant difference…
Russian Philosophy
Ultimate Questions. An Anthology of Modern Russian Religious Thought
Sociological Theories of Today
Social Relations and Social Roles: The Unfinished Systematic Sociology.Florian Znaniecki
Sociology of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Autobiografía de Pitirim A. Sorokin
Autobiografía de Sorokin
Social Time: A Methodological and Functional Analysis
The category of astronomical time is only one of several concepts of time. Such concepts differ in the fields of philosophy, psychology, and economics. An operational definition of expressions of time in common usage shows that social phenomena are frequently adopted as a frame of reference so that units of time are often fixed by the rhythm of collective life. The need for social collaboration is at the root of social systems of time. Social tim…
Social and Cultural Dynamics: A Study of Change in Major Systems of Art, Truth, Ethics, Law, and Social Relationships
This classic work is a revised and abridged version, in a single volume, of the work which more than any other catapulted Pitirim Sorokin into being one of the most famed figures of twentieth-century sociology. Its original publication occurred before World War II. This revised version, written some twenty years later, reflects a postwar environment. Earlier than most, Sorokin took the consequences of the breakdown of colonialism into account in …
Sociological Theories of Today
Secondly, this volume marks an evolution in Sorokin's own approach to sociological theory. His earlier work dealt with theory in terms of a school of thought, and for this purpose he used a scheme of classification which was sometimes arbitrary and often misleading. In this volume he employs a new scheme which places the theory in a context more descriptive of its real character. In another very important respect there is a significant difference…
Sociological Theories of Today
Social and Cultural Dynamics: Vol. III, Fluctuation of Social Relationships, War and Revolution
Fads and Foibles in Modern Sociology and Related Sciences
Fads and Foibles in Modern Sociology and Related Sciences
Man and Society in Calamity
A Long Journey: The Autobiography of Pitirim A. Sorokin
The Crisis of Our Age
A Systematic Source Book in Rural Sociology
Sociology of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Social Philosophies of an Age of Crisis
Power and Morality: Who shall Guard the Guardians
Russia and the United States
Throughout the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union viewed themselves as saviors of the world, and each saw itself as working on behalf of humanity against the other. The unexpected implosion of the Soviet empire in 1989 brought an end to this bipolar world and left both nations uncertain about their relations to the world and to each other. Antagonism between the United States and Russia is rooted in a lack of knowledge of each …
Fads and Foibles in Modern Sociology and Related Sciences
Society, Culture, and Personality: Their Structure and Dynamics
Recent Social Trends: A Criticism
Some Contrasts of Contemporary European and American Sociology: I
Journal Article Some Contrasts of Contemporary European and American Sociology: I Get access Pitirim A. Sorokin Pitirim A. Sorokin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 8, Issue 1, September 1929, Pages 57–62, https://doi.org/10.2307/2570052 Published: 01 September 1929
The Reconstruction of Humanity
Social and Cultural Dynamics. Volume Four: Basic Problems, Principles, and Methods
Leaves from a Russian Diary: And Thirty Years after
Leaves from a Russian Diary: and Thirty Years After Leaves from a Russian Diary: and Thirty Years After. Enlarged ed. By Pitirim A. Sorokin. Boston, Mass., Beacon Press, 1950. ix+346 pp. 8′ ′×512′ ′ . $3.50. C. G. C. G. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 26, Issue 3, July 1950, Page 438, https://doi.org/10.2307/2607770 Published: 01 July 1950
Society, Culture, and Personality
A Neglected Factor of War
WAR. Like other referential principles of social sciences of today, principle of causality is in a chaotic state. We use it all time as something definite and clear in its meaning, but as soon as we begin to analyze it, we find its meaning is neither definite, nor identical among various scholars. When we take a concrete problem and start to analyze its causes, this chaotic state becomes immediately apparent. The problem of causes of war illustra…
The Conditions and Prospects for a World Without War
The Sociology of Revolution
Monarchs and Rulers: A Comparative Statistical Study
Journal Article Monarchs and Rulers: A Comparative Statistical Study Get access Pitirim Sorokin Pitirim Sorokin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 4, Issue 1, September 1925, Pages 22–35, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/4.1.22 Published: 01 September 1925
Impoverishment and the Expansion of Governmental Control
In a society where there exists a differentiation into poor and rich, an impoverishment or an increase of the economic contrast between the wealthy and the poor facilitates an expansion of government interference in economic relations. This factor, together with that of militarism, has been, and is, responsible for an increase of governmental control of economic relations in the past and in the present
Leaders of Labor and Radical Movements in the United States and Foreign Countries
The Paper studies quantitatively some of the characteristics of the American and foreign leaders of labor and radical movements, and some of the correlations between the phenomena of leadership and various conditions. The study is based on about 1,600 biographies of the leaders. The principal conclusions reached are summed up at the end of the paper, in its "Summary
Mobility and Differentiation
Journal Article Mobility and Differentiation Get access Frank H. Hankins Frank H. Hankins Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 6, Issue 2, December 1927, Pages 306–308, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/6.2.306 Published: 01 December 1927
A Survey of the Cyclical Conceptions of Social and Historical Process
Journal Article A Survey of the Cyclical Conceptions of Social and Historical Process Get access Pitirim A. Sorokin Pitirim A. Sorokin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 6, Issue 1, September 1927, Pages 28–40, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/6.1.28 Published: 01 September 1927
Farmer Leaders in the United States
Journal Article Farmer Leaders in the United States Get access Pitirim A. Sorokin, Pitirim A. Sorokin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Carle C. Zimmerman, Carle C. Zimmerman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar I. O. Adams, I. O. Adams Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar O. W. Behrens, O. W. Behrens Search for other works by this autho…
Some Contrasts of Contemporary European and American Sociology: I
Journal Article Some Contrasts of Contemporary European and American Sociology: I Get access Pitirim A. Sorokin Pitirim A. Sorokin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 8, Issue 1, September 1929, Pages 57–62, https://doi.org/10.2307/2570052 Published: 01 September 1929
Sociology as a Science
the spirit and methods of modern science, but at the same time they illustrate a philosophical approach to the problems in their fields. However, it is invidious to mention names, for many others might be cited whose work illustrates equally well the open-minded, but critical scientific approach, which overlaps with philosophical procedure. This protest against too narrow a view of scientific method in the social sciences would not be needed if t…
"Rejoinder Notes on "What Is Sociology
Journal Article Rejoinder Notes on “What Is Sociology?” Get access Pitirim A. Sorokin, Pitirim A. Sorokin Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Charles A. Ellwood Charles A. Ellwood Duke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 10, Issue 3, March 1932, Pages 326–328, https://doi.org/10.2307/2569670 Published: 01 March 1932
An Experimental Study of the Influence of Suggestion on the Discrimination and the Valuation of People
This article summarizes an experimental study of the influence of two kinds of suggestions-a false dogmatic and a "persuasive"-on the discrimination and the valuation of people. In all, 1,484 persons were experimented upon, taken individually and in groups of various size. Contrary to the signalization of the reality of the sound-stimuli, about 96 per cent of all subjects followed the false dogmatic suggestion; only about 4 per cent of the subjec…
Recent Social Trends: A Criticism
Rejoinder to Professor Ogburn's Reply
Methods in Sociology: A Critical Study . Charles A. Ellwood
The Course of Arabian Intellectual Development, 700-1300 A.D. A Study in Method
Essays of William Graham Sumner
The Method of Sociology
A Systematic Source Book in Rural Sociology
Is Accurate Social Planning Possible
HE VERY title of my paper may evoke a smile: you know that the Soviet, the Fascist, the Hitlerite, the Rooseveltian and many other governments have been doing social planning and enforcing it? Don't you know that many leaders of business and of various associations have been planning the functions and activities of their respective institutions? Then why beat about the bush with your futile academic 'Is Social Planning Possible?' Since it is prac…
Social and Cultural Dynamics: Vol. III, Fluctuation of Social Relationships, War and Revolution
Social and Cultural Dynamics: Vol. II, Fluctuation of Systems of Truth, Ethnics and Law
Social and Cultural Dynamics: Vol. I, Fluctuation of Forms of Art
Art and Society
Time's Arrow in Society: A Philosophy of Progress.Anderson Woods
Social Time: A Methodological and Functional Analysis
The category of astronomical time is only one of several concepts of time. Such concepts differ in the fields of philosophy, psychology, and economics. An operational definition of expressions of time in common usage shows that social phenomena are frequently adopted as a frame of reference so that units of time are often fixed by the rhythm of collective life. The need for social collaboration is at the root of social systems of time. Social tim…
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