Sorokin & civilization : a centennial assessment / editors, Joseph B. Ford, Michel P. Richard, and Palmer C. Talbutt ; with a preface by Roger W. Wescott.

Contributor Ford, Joseph B. (Joseph Brandon)

Imprint:New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c1996.

Descriptionix, 258 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Festschrift for Pitirim Sorokin.

Note:Sorokin's life and work / Barry V. Johnston. - Sorokin remembered / Edward A. Tiryakian. - The Sorokin-Merton correspondence on "Puritanism, pietism, and science," 1933-34 / Robert K. Merton. - Snakes and ladders: Parsons and Sorkoin at Harvard / William Buxton. - Sorokin and American sociology: the dynamics of a moral career in science / Lawrence T. Nichols. - Sorokin's challenge to modernity / Palmer C. Talbutt. - Sorokin's methodology: integralism as the key / Joseph B. Ford. - Sorokin as dialectician / Robert C. Hanson. - Sorokin's concept of immanent change / Robert G. Perrin. - Civilizational worldview as an aggregate of intuitions / David Richardson. - Sorokin versus Toynbee on civilization / David Wilkinson. - Applying Sorokin's typology / Michel P. Richard. - An empirical assessment of Sorokin's Theory of Change / George A. Hillery, Jr., Susan V. Mead, Robert G. Turner, Jr. - A study of generational fluctuations in philosophical beliefs / Dean Keith Simonton. - Sorokin's vision of altruistic love as a bridge to human consensus / Paul V. Crosbie, Samuel P. Oliner. - Transitions, revolutions, and wars / William Eckhardt.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-250) and index.

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