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Worldwide totalitarianism after the war, regardless of which side wins, is the grim picture painted by Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology. "Whether it is changed on paper or not," he said, "the Constitution of the United States will be radically altered in the post-war period. America will probably even abandon the two-party system of government...
Highlighted by an address by Professor Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, the first open meeting of Harvard's unit of "France Forever" was held Monday night in the Geographical Exploration Building...
Before an audience of some 150 students from Harvrd, Wellesley and Lasell, Professor Sorokin explained his reasons for his condemnation of the Nazi "'New Order," asserting that if offered no values to offset the destruction brought about by its activities...
Professor Cons. recognized as the greatest living authority on Resistance literature, will discuss "Resistance in France," while Professor Sorokin's subject has not been announced...
This brief outline is brutally unfair--you must read the book to appreciate fully the tremendous breadth of Professor Sorokin's knowledge--but it does allow of at least one equally sketchy criticism of the method of analysis; Sorokin has started out with the hunch that there are three cultural compartments and then amassed evidence to back the hunch. But it is possible to start out with the different theory of a linear, progressive history of Western civilization and amass evidence to prove it, or to take a theory of parallel lines of development. Sorokin's evidence to prove...