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...Pitirim Sorokin, a distinguished American sociologist, comes to Harvard this fall as Professor of Sociology and Chairman of the Committee on Sociology and Social Ethics. He will offer two full courses to be given in the Department of Economics, one an undergraduate course in contemporary sociological theories, and the other a graduate course on social organization...
...appointment of Professor Sorokin marks an important addition to the instruction in Sociology available to students at Harvard. For some years Professor T. N. Carver has been giving courses in that subject in the Department of Economics, and the Department of Social Ethics has covered other parts of the field. Some other departments have also given work closely related to Sociology. Finally, in 1928 an attempt was made to coordinate this scattered work by the establishment of the tutorial field of the Sociology and Social Ethics, administrated by the Committee of that name, which is composed of members...
Professor Sorokin was born in Northern Russia in 1889. After his early education in the public schools of that region, he prepared for the university at the Psycho-Neurological Institute of Petrograd. In 1910 he entered the School of Law of the University of Petrograd from which he was graduated in 1914. A little later he was awarded the degree of Master of Criminal Law and Procedure, the requirements for which are even more stringent than those for the American Ph.D...
...months later Professor Sorokin was banished by the Soviet Government and took refuge in Czecho-Slovakia, where he spent ten months as the guest of President Masaryk. In 1924 became to the United States and became Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota, where he has remained until called to Harvard...
...Social Ethics, of which I am not even a member, but Chairman of the Committee on Sociology and Social Ethics. This Committee is an entirely different body, composed of representatives of six important departments, of which the Department of Social Ethics is only one. Very truly yours, P. Sorokin...