Pitirim sorokin social and cultural dynamics sorokin

          This classic work is a revised and abridged version, in a single volume, of the work which more than any other catapulted Pitirim Sorokin into being one of the most famed figures of twentieth-century sociology....

          Sorokin came to view social and cultural dynamics in terms of three major processes: a major shift of mankind's creative center from Europe to the Pacific.

        1. This classic work is a revised and abridged version, in a single volume, of the work which more than any other catapulted Pitirim Sorokin into being one of.
        2. This classic work is a revised and abridged version, in a single volume, of the work which more than any other catapulted Pitirim Sorokin into being one of the most famed figures of twentieth-century sociology.
        3. Earlier than most, Sorokin took the consequences of the breakdown of colonialism into account in discussing the renaissance of the great cultures of African and.
        4. Social And Cultural Dynamics Book Source: Digital Library of India Item : Sorokin Pitirim A.

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          preface – volume 1

          preface – volume 2

          preface – volume 3

          preface – volume 4

           

          The full text of Pitirim A. Sorokin’s magnum opus, Social and Cultural Dynamics (1937-1941), is hard to come by nowadays, except perhaps in a library.

          I have transcribed and am posting here (downloadable Word documents above) the text of the four separate prefaces to Volumes One through Four of the Dynamics.

          They make for very interesting and informative reading — including, and importantly, Sorokin’s conception of sociology and his philosophy of history.

          Here’s a typical,stirring passage from the preface to Volume One:

          This work has grown out of my efforts to understand something of what has been happening in the social and cultural world about me.

          I am not ashamed to confess that the World War and most of what took place after it were bewildering to one who, in conformity with the dominant currents of social thought of the earlier twentie