Pitirim A. Sorokin
1889-1968
Cruelty, hatred, violence, and injustice
never can and never will be able to create a mental, moral, or material millennium.
The only way toward it is the royal road of all-giving creative love,
not only preached but consistently practiced
Primary Sources:
Hunger as a Factor in Human Affairs (1919-1921)(first published, 1975)
The Sociology of Revolution (1925)
Social Mobility (1927-1941)
Contemporary Sociological Theories (1928-)
Principles of Rural-Urban Sociology (with Carl Zimmerman) (1929)
A Systematic Sourcebook in Rural-Urban Sociology, 3 Volumes (with Carl Zimmerman and C. Galpin) (1930-1932)
Social and Cultural Dynamics, 4 vols (1937-1941)
Leaves From a Russian Diary (1950)
Reconstruction of Humanity 1948
Crisis of Our Age (1941)
Contemporary Sociological Theories (1928)
Sociology of Revolution (1924)
Man and Society in Calamity (1942)
Sociocultural Causality, Space, Time (1943)
The Pattern of the Past: Can We Determine It (with P. Geyl, A. Toynbee) (1949)
Social Philosophies of an Age of Crisis (1950)
The Meaning of Our Crisis (1951)
Modern History and Social Philosophies
Altruistic Love: A Strudy of American Good Neighbors and Christian Saints (1950)
Sorokin, ed: Explorations in Altruistic Love and Behavior (1950)
The Ways and Power of Love (1954)
Forms and Techniques of Altruistic and Spiritual Growth (1954)
Social and Cultural Mobility (1959)
Power and Morality (with Walter Lunden) (1959)
Society, Culture, and Personality: Their Structure and Dynamics (1962)
Long Journey: The Autobiography of Pitirim A. Sorokin 1963
The Basic Trends of Our TImes (1964)
Sorokin Secondary Sources
F.R. Cowell: History, Civilization and Culture: An Introduction to
the Historical and Social Philosophy of Pitirim A. Sorokin
Altruistic Studies
From Sorokin's, The Ways and Power of Love):
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