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Book SynopsisPitirim 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1: The Boundaries and Subject Matter of Sociology 2: Some Contrasts between European and American Sociology 3: Sociology as a Science 4: Conclusion: Retrospect and Prospect 5: Declaration of Independence of the Social Sciences 6: Referential Principles of Integralist Sociology 7: Sociology of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow 8: L. N. Tolstoy as a Philosopher 9: Notes from a Sociologist: At the Crossroads 10: Notes from a Sociologist: Delay 11: An Experimental Study of Efficiency of Work under Various Specified Conditions (with Mamie Tanquist, Mildred Parten, and Mrs. C. C. Zimmerman) 12: Social Mobility 13: The Future of the Rural and Urban Worlds 14: Social Time: A Methodological and Functional Analysis 15: Social Space, Social Distance, and Social Position 16: Ideational, Sensate, Idealistic, and Mixed Systems of Culture 17: Principle of Immanent Change of Sociocultural Systems and Congeries 18: The Perversion of Human Behavior in Revolution 19: The Cause and Factors of War and Peace 20: The Conditions and Prospects for a World without War 21: Sociology and Ethics 22: Amitology as an Applied Science of Amity and Unselfish Love 23: Studies of the Harvard Research Center in Creative Altruism Selected Publications by and about Pitirim A. Sorokin Index
