{"product_id":"on-the-practice-of-sociology-heritage-of-sociology-series-9780226768281","title":"On the Practice of Sociology Heritage of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePitirim 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 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","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036584673623,"sku":"9780226768281","price":113.87,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/on-the-practice-of-sociology-heritage-of-sociology-series-9780226768281","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}