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...predominant world culture of the last five centuries is crumbling, according to Pitirim A. Sorokin, director of the Research Center in Creative Altruism...
...lecture sponsored by the Social Relations Society last night at Emerson Hall, Sorokin noted the disintegration of the old "sensate" culture as one of the basic trends of our age. If man can avert total destruction in the struggle between the new and the old systems of thought the "dawn of a new, great culture is awaiting the man of the future," he claimed...
...Although Sorokin recognized hints of the new emerging culture in fields as diverse as science, sociology, and the fine arts, he felt that its conflict with firmly entrenched traces of the old "sensate" culture could only point to more violent struggles in the future. As a result, in 1937 he was able to discount the optimistic hopes of many of his colleagues for a lasting universal peace, and instead said mankind must look forward to an age of "bigger and better wars." Sorokin noted that since that time his most severe critics have been banished...
Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, emeritus, Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, emeritus, and Paul J. Tillich, University Professor, signed a statement saying "we are facing a danger unlike any danger that has ever existed...
About the time of 1932's sophomore mid-years, four memorable events occurred: John Dewey was appointed William James Lecturer for the second semester of 1930-31; Russian sociologist Pitrim A. Sorokin, now director of the Institute for Creative Altruism, was appointed to head the Committee on Sociology and Social Ethics; 90 men were arrested in a mass subway riot; and the charred plot of ground on Soldiers Field where the locker building had stood before the January 14 fire, was being prepared for the new Dillon Field House, designed by the omnipresent Messrs. Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbott...