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Designed by Francis D. Smith '50, 1 GS, under the guidance of Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of sociology, the survey seeks to discover whether or not "a set of critical selective factors" determine friendship development, and if so, what they...
...Sorokin elaborated on this point and expressed the hope that at some date a survey of international harmonies and disharmonies could be conducted on the same principle. Sorokin stressed, however, that before inter-group studies could be carried out and understood, there must be a basic understanding of the people who make up the group...
...Achievement of world peace is of course the aim of every social scientist, and the sooner he can perpetrate an understanding among nations the sooner he will realize a harmony among the national groups. We must begin with the foundation now," Sorokin believes...
Other factors in the life of contented students were good health and congenial playmates. Sorokin contends, "The absence of these two (loving family and playmates) cannot be compensated for by wealth . . . or any of the material values. If they are present, even the children of a poor family, living in a slum district, can be happy...
...Sorokin reached these conclusions after studying case histories of 547 College men and Annex girls. He has been working for two years on a study of human altruism on a grant from the Libby Endowment of $20,000 a year...