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...third important measure would be the establishment of a Harvard Sociological Series. Already established seres, such as those in economics and history, are justly famed as contributions to learning. There are many regular members of the Sociological faculty, of whom Professors Sorokin, Zimmerman, and Parsons are best-known, who would make a similar series in sociology likewise indispensable...
Without question the growth and vigor of the Department has been due primarily to the zeal and forward-looking optimism of two men--Professors Sorokin and Zimmerman. It shows an unhealthy condition in any department to have two men carrying by far the major burden of departmental responsibility and routine, as well as a great teaching load. One senior member has shown for several years an astonishing disregard of the best interests of this department. There can be no excuse whatsoever for a "gang your own way" attitude, with all that it implies about neglect of departmental duties, ragged lecturing...
...Lynn Smith, a former graduate student in Sociology, is managing editor, while Carl C. Zimmerman and Pitirim A. Sorokin of the Department of Sociology, John D. Black, professor of Economics, and Corrado Gini, of the Royal University in Rome, Italy, now visiting Lecturer in Sociology, are associate editors...
...more. There was a general tendency to overestimate the time devoted to reading, chatting, cinema and other recreation, and to underestimate that consumed by humdrum activities-sleep, work, rest, transportation, shopping, personal care. Protestants predicted themselves better than Catholics, and Catholics better than Jews, a fact which Dr. Sorokin took to mean that the higher the emotional content of a subject's religion, the less able he is to say what he will...
This question was the title of a paper read to the American Sociological Society in Manhattan last week by Professor Pitirim Alexandrovitch Sorokin, head of Harvard's Department of Sociology. Russian-born, bespectacled Dr. Sorokin asked 106 Federal employes to state how much time they would devote to various activities the following day, checked predictions against facts. Findings...