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...following statistics of the comparative midyear grades of concentrators in Sociology for 1932 and average grades of the college as a whole, were given out recently by Professor P. A. Sorokin, chairman of the department. Six per cent of the Sociology students were in group I, three times as large as the two per cent for the entire College. Other percentages in the different groups, Sociology being given first, the College average second, are as follows: II, 20 and 7; III, 8 and 15; IV, 16 and 20; V, 33 and 30; VI, 9 and 9; Others...
...opening of four undergraduate courses to be given for the first time under the Department of Sociology and the institution of a pro-seminary for graduate students were announced last night by Professor P. A. Sorokin, chairman of the department...
Professor C. C. Zimmerman, who returned this fall from an extensive governmental survey of agricultural conditions in Siam, will give Sociology 8 and 13 on "Rural Sociology", and "Sociology and the Family". Sociology 1 will be conducted exclusively by Professor Sorokin next year while Professor L. J. Henderson '98 will give a special seminary on the sociological theories of Pareto, assisted by C. P. Curtis, Jr., a member of the Corporation. Courses 3, 5, and 9 will be bracketed for the year. Professor Talcott Parsons will present a special half-course on "New Sociological Theories...
...Professor Sorokin declared, "the department seems to me to be in a satisfactory situation, for the fact that articles on the subject have appeared all over the country as well as on the continent, shows how much interest has been aroused in the department, and how significant the opening of the new department is, Many universities and colleges such as Yale and Vassar have commenced to organize departments, now that they have seen how successful Harvard has been, and at Columbia, where the whole department had practically disbanded, expansion of the same has started. German and Italian universities...
...sometime this fall. His book entitled "Contemporary Sociological Theories," published in 1928, has already been translated into German and Chinese, and is now in the process of being translated into Japanese, Czecho-Slovakian, and Yugo-Slavian. At the present time, three-quarters of the work of translating Professor's Sorokin's "System of Sociology" from Russian into English has been done by Dr. Sharol of Columbia, and the book will be published by Harper sometime in 1932. "Social Dynamics" will be the title of the three volume book which Professor Sorokin is now working on and plans to work...