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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...
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...
Working with scholars whom no one considers eccentric, Sorokin has produced a dozen books on altruism -- and they are widely respected...
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...