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Title
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Sorokin Maps a School to Train Temptation-Proof Ruling Class
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Subject Heading
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Students--Conduct of life, Universities and colleges--Entrance examinations
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Description
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Article is about Sorokins proposal of a revolutionary entrance exam for the ideal college. File folder contains clippings from various media.
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Date
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12-03-2009, 1940
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Title
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Reconstruction of Humanity
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Subject Heading
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Sorokin, Pitirim A., Sociology, Moral behavior, Humanity, Culture, Harvard University
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Description
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File folder contains book reviews by others of Sorokin's book Reconstruction of Humanity. This book is the product of a research project conducted at Harvard and outlines what must be changed in social institutions, in culture-systems, and in personality to avoid new catastrophes and create a peaceful world.
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Date
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1948-1952, 01-04-2010
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Title
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Sociocultural Casusality, Space, Time
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Subject Heading
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Sociology, Sorokin, Pitirim A., MacIver, Robert M., Sociology, Science, culture, and society
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Description
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Comparison of R. M. MacIver's book Social Causation and Pitirim Sorokin's book.
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Date
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11-26-2009, 1943-10
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Title
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Crisis of Our Age - The Social and Cultural Outlook
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Subject Heading
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Sociology, Sorokin, Pitirim A., Civilization -- Philosophy, History -- Philosophy, Culture, Ethics, Truth, Freedom
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Description
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Book review published in Sociologica, vol. VI, no. 1, 1944
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Date
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11-26-2009, 1944
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Title
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Sorokin's Data Versus his Conclusions
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Subject Heading
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Sorokin, Pitirim A., Sociology, Statistical analysis, Civilization--Philosophy, Hisotry--Philosophy, Culture
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Description
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Article reprinted from American Sociological Review. A critical analysis of Sorokin's statistical data. Folder contains 2 copies
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Date
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27-11-2009, 1939
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Title
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General Theory of Creativity
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Subject Heading
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Sociology, Sorokin, Pitirim A., Cognition and culture
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Description
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At a symposium held at Syracuse University on creavitiy and psychological health, Sorokin discusses the general theory of creativity. 1) Working definitions of creative activity; 2) Creative inequality of individuals and groups; 3) Fluctuation of creative activity; 4) Shift of creativity from group to group in the course of time; 5) Specificity of creativity; 6) Factors of creativity; 7) The law of the three stages; 8) Integral theory of cognition and creativity; 9) The role of the supraconscious in discoveries and creativity. He concludes by saying, "each accomplished great achievement or discovery is always the result of the unified work of all three - supraconscious, rational, and sensory-ways of congnition and creativity".
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Date
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11-24-2009, 1961
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Title
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Sorokin-Gini Correspondence
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Subject Heading
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Sociology, Sorokin, Pitirim A.
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Description
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Correspondence between Pitirim A. Sorokin and Corrado Gini, often concerning the International Institute of Sociology.
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Date
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1927-06-1963-04, 3 September 2009
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Title
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History of Social Thought
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Subject Heading
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Sorokin, Pitirim A., Sociology, Notes, Philosophy and society, Research
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Description
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Manuscript of lectures; research notes and discussion papers
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Date
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1916
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Title
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Contributions to the Research Society for Creative Altruism, Reseaerch Center for Creative Altruism: Administration Files
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Subject Heading
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Administration, Receipts, Sorokin, Pitirim A., Sociology
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Description
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Contributions made to the Research Society for Creative Altruism; petty cash vouchers from Harvard to the Research Center in Creative Altruism
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Date
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1958-1969
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Title
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Huang, Wen-Shan
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Subject Heading
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Sociology, Correspondence, Sorokin, Pitirim A.
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Description
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Huang asks Sorokin to review The Origin of Chinese Culture - a Study of Chinese Totemism; Huang sends Sorokin a paper on views concerning culturology and relationship of social and cultural systems to each other and bibliography on sociology in China; congratulations to Sorokin on being elected president of the American Sociological Association; Huang asks for Sorokin's opinion regarding the establishment of a new science culturology; letter from Bureau of International Culture and Education Relations from Dadsam Chen reqarding Sorokin for placement under the Fulbright program; Sorokin unable to travel to the Orient; Huang would like Sorokin to translate his new book Contemporary Sociological Theories
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Date
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1960-1966
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Title
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Hirschfeld, Gerhard
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Subject Heading
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Sorokin, Pitirim A., Correspondence, Sociology
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Description
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Hirschfeld asks Sorokin to read his manuscript on the causes of war; the extension of the problem of war to mankind by Hirschfeld;manuscript for "What is Mankind?" by Gerhard Hirschfeld; proposal from the Committee for the Study of Mankind for an international seminar on the concept of mankind for Sorokin's opinion
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Date
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1949-1958
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Title
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Hobbs, A. H.
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Subject Heading
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Sorokin, Pitirim A., Sociology
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Description
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Correspondence between Hobbs and Sorokin regarding various publications; Hobbs makes reference to a lecture Sorokin gave at the University of Pennsylvania where the students and faculty refer admiringly to his ""virtuoso surgical skill" where he amputated the underpinnings of so many pseudo-scientific theories".
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Date
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1953-1960
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Title
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Henrich, Joachim
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Subject Heading
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Sorokin, Pitirim A., Correspondence, Sociology
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Description
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Correspondence includes an English letter to Joachim Henrich regarding the German editions of Crisis and Reconstruction; a letter written to Charles C. Baldwin, regarding the publication of an incompetent review by H. Kleinschmidt of the Reconstruction of Humanity in Die Neue Zeitung, March 22/23, 1952
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Date
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1947-1954
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Title
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Gurvitch, Georges
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Subject Heading
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Correspondence, Sociology
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Description
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Request by Gurvitch to Sorokin to contribute to a symposium on Twentieth Century Sociology. The topic Cultural Dynamics Against Evolution; Sorokin's request to Guvitch to contribute an article for a symposium volume the Centre plans to publish on altruism or love. Discussions between Sorokin and Gurvitch regarding articles and books they have published; letter from Cultural Attache, W. E. Weld regarding an interest to lecture in the United States by Gurvitch; letters from Logan Wilson and Robert K. Merton to Georges Gurvitch.
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Date
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1943-1964
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Title
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General Electric Company
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Subject Heading
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Interpersonal relations, Correspondence, Human Behavior, Sorokin, Pitirim A., Sociology, Instructional films, Executives--training of
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Description
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Correspondence between Mr. Vernon H. Welsh, General Electric Co., Manager, Employee Relations , Pitirim A. Sorokin and Henry Strauss, Pathescrope Productions regarding a request for Sorokin to view a motion picture produced by them. The film will be shown to General Electric supervisors and top management at a future human relations course.
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Date
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1951-16-03
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Title
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Georgetown University
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Subject Heading
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Correspondence, Sorokin, Pitirim A, Speeches, addresses, etc.
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Description
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Correspondence regarding the address Sorokin gave at the sesquicentennial (1789-1939) celebration of Georgetown University; Sorokin's letter declining an invitation to convocation and the dedication of the Edmund A. Walsh Memorial building; letter from Ernst H. Feilchenfeld, Institute of World of Poetry
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Date
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1939-1958
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Title
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Pitirim Sorokin A.: a Memorial Minute Adopted By the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Harvard University
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Subject Heading
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Sorokin, Pitirim A.
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Description
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The life and times of Pitirim Sorokin principal founder and first chairman of the Department of Sociology at Harvard.
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Date
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1968-12-3
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Title
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Harvard University
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Subject Heading
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Sorokin, Pitirim A., Correspondence, Sociology, Finance
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Description
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Among the correspondence are letters dealing with the funding provided by and to the Research Center for Altruistic Integration and Creativity; funding to researchers; correspondence with the Provost Paul Herman Buck;
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Date
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1946-1958
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Title
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Harman, Willis W.
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Subject Heading
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Sorokin, Pitirim A., Altruism, LSD(Drug)
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Description
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Correspondence from Harman requesting a meeting to discuss work being done at the Research Center for Creative Altruism; Sequoia Seminar requesting an associate membership to the Research Society for Creative Altruism; the investigation of certain areas of human experiences while using the chemical LSD-25.
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Date
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1958
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Title
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Hart, Hornell
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Subject Heading
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Sorokin, Pitirim A., Correspondence
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Description
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Correspondence between Sorokin and Hart regarding various published works; two articles by Hornell Hart, "Sorokin and Sensate Civilization" and "A Memorandum on "Creative Discussion"
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Date
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1937-1956
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