Sorokin and Civilization

* Book: Sorokin and Civilization. A Centennial Assessment. By Joseph B. Ford. Routledge, republished 2018 (1996)

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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 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."

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Table of Contents

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 a

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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