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American civilization and culture is in a transitional period, moving away from the "sensate" culture of the past four centuries, probably toward an "ideational" era closely allied to the spirit of the Middle Ages, Pitrim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, told an audience of 75 at a Council of Government Concentrators "cross-question" hour in the Union last night...
Lumping American with European culture as "Euro-American", Professor Sorokin set the World War as a tentative starting point for an era of change that may take a century...
...boldness of a scientist," but soon "sacred cows were jostled'' and today Conant has subsided "to the dead level of mass alumni opinion." Sprightly, 66-year-old Porter Sargent criticizes President Conant most severely for keeping as head of Harvard's sociology department Pitirim Alexandrovitch Sorokin, whom he calls a pseudo-scientist, a defeatist and a reactionary. "Harvard is maintaining him in a position of influence where he is misguiding and frustrating American youth. . . . The sociology department is the White Russian...
...Freshman who is planning to concentrate in the field, however, should take at least one half of Sociology A during his first year. He must apply in person to Professor Sorokin to take it, since the number of Freshmen allowed in the course is limited. The first half, a study of society in its structural and dynamic aspects, is a good sample of the work in the field, and is within easy grasp of anyone who has had no previous experience. It may be dropped at midyears if the student so desires. The second half, Sociology Ab, is a study...
While in Cambridge his constant companions have been Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, and Michael Karpovich, assistant professor of History, both of whom served him in former days...