Word: sorokin
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Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, Emeritus, died at his home in Winchester early Saturday...
...Sorokin came to Harvard from the University of Minnesota in 1931 to set up, at the University's invitation, a department of Sociology. For the next 13 years he was chairman of that department...
...justifying his work at the Center, Sorokin said: "Since governments, big foundations, and better brains seem to be absorbed mainly in the promotion of wars and in the invention of increasingly destructive means for the extermination of man by man, someone, somehow, and sometime had to engage in the study of the phenomena of unselfish love, no matter how inadequate were his capabilities or how low the esteem of colleagues for his engaging in such a 'foolish enterprise...
Here Harvard is already on its way. Two of the authors listed by Rimmer are already on the Harvard Faculty. Yes, Gordon W. Allport, Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, and Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology Emeritus, have made Harrad's golden circle of authors with Becoming and The American Sex Revolution respectively. It surely wouldn't be asking too much for Allport and Sorokin to organize a Harvard course in "Human Values," like that required of all Harrad students. Harvard students could be taught the history of contraception in the opening lecture, as at Harrad, and move...
Most of Winchester's residents have never heard of Pitirim A. Sorokin or his Center for Research in Creative Altruism. Sorokin lives a quiet life, befitting a retired college professor. His neighbors would probably be aghast to hear they are living next to a man once on speaking terms with Lenin and Trotsky, who was sentenced to death and then banished from his country, and who has produced some of sociology's most important "yarns...