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Sociological theory will not prevent Professor Pitirim Alexandrovitch Sorokin's appearance in a local traffic court tomorrow morning bright and early to pay a $5.00 fine for not having his automobile brakes checked...
...irony of the situation, Professor Sorokin told his Sec 1 class yesterday morning, was that he had just spent a goodly sum having the whole car checked and a new transmission...
...list of books includes Fay, "The Origins of the World War"; Friedrich, "Constitutional Government and Politics"; Roberts, "The House That Hitler Built"; Munro, "The Governments of Europe"; Slichter, "Modern Economic Society"; Garver and Hansen, "Principles of Economics"; and Taussig, "Principles of Economics;" Sorokin, "Social Mobility" and "Contemporary Sociological Theories;" Steiner, "Government in Fascist Italy"; Harper, "The Government of the Soviet Union"; Roberts, "The House That Hitler Built"; Hockett, "Political and Social Growth of the United States"; and Pringle, "Theodore Roosevelt...
Professor Sorokin's solution is incomplete; he admits this at the outset. He does not say such-and-such is the design for happiness. But, he does say that in seeking for the road to happiness, we must adopt a new attitude. First of all, we must accept the reality of absolute values, as exemplified in art, ethics, and religion; we must accept the reality of man and society, the reality of empirical data, and finally the infinite possibility of interpreting anything, within its own context, as real. He has certainly provided a means of relationship between narrow, closed orbits...
...test the value of Professor Sorokin's point of view, we might apply it to America's attitude and reaction to war. Empirically war has been found to cause trouble. Rationally, it is unacceptable. War destroys both men and society. Finally, Americans have a powerful intuitive repulsion to killing. Using Professor Sorokin's integral method of approach it seems clear that people should make a conscious effort to eliminate war, to extract the thorn in the flesh of civilization. However, from its narrow empirical point of view, America acts on its experience that war may be bad for combatants...