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Title: American Sociological Association
Subject Heading: Sociology, Sorokin, Pitirim A.
Description: File includes copies of letters regarding papers on Herbert Spencer; Edwin H. Powell's "Seven paradoxes of the welfare state: the peaceful implications of the military-industrial complex". Correspondence regarding: Sorokin's participation at the annual meeting; reports and announcements; letters of congratulations to Sorokin on his election as president of the Association; duties as president; arrangements for the 1965 programme; draft of "Code of Ethics"; notes on procedures for the Committee on Nominations and Elections; reports of the Executive Officer; reports on income and expenses; Minutes of the program, Council, and Executive meetings; draft code of ethics for sociologists; membership; general items of the Association and its activities. Also included is a copy of the Constitution and By-laws.
Date: 1960-1965

Title: Bush, Maurice S
Subject Heading: Sorokin, Pitirim A., Sociology
Description: File includes clipping regarding funding research projects; letter regarding review of Power and Morality; and copy of items regarding Bush's appointment to the Interstate Commerce Commission. Correspondence regarding Sorokin's activities, writings, and public addresses; Research Society for Creative Altruism; and a suggestion that Sorokin write an autobiography.
Date: 1956-1962

Title: Basran, Dr. G.S.
Subject Heading: Sorokin, Pitirim A., Sociology, Associations
Description: Correspondence regarding preparation to secure the nomination of Sorokin for the presidency of the American Sociological Association. Most of the correspondence seems to have been circulated among the following sociologists: C.A. Anderson, W.Firey, H. Blumer, Chas. P. Loomis, William.H. Sewell, Dudley Duncan, R.K. Merton and T. Lynn Smith. Basran seems to have been the collector of this correspondence.
Date: 1963-01-1963-03

Title: DuWors, Richard E
Subject Heading: Sociology, Sorokin, Pitirim A.
Description: File includes 1 enclosure of qualifications of Pierce, West and DuWors; correspondence regarding Sorokin's activities, publications, and honours; a "package" employment arrangement sought by A. Pierce, W. Weist, and DuWors; Dr. Leo Chall; DuWors' research at Saskatchewan; Sorokin's health; and arrangements for the acquisition and transport of the Sorokin Archives and Library and its establishement at the University of Saskatchewan Library.
Date: 1932-1962

Title: Crisis of Our Age (review)
Subject Heading: Sorokin, Pitirim A., Sociology
Description: Review about Sorokin's book Crisis of Our Age. Evidence collected for Social and Cultural Dynamics concerning fluctuations in all aspects of social and cultural life is reproduced in Crisis of Our Age in a condensed version. According to Sorokin the evidence establishes the decline of creative forces in modern sensate culture. A majority of American sociologists oppose Sorokin's ideas. Published in Thought, December, 1941
Date: 1941

Title: General Electric Company
Subject Heading: Interpersonal relations, Correspondence, Human Behavior, Sorokin, Pitirim A., Sociology, Instructional films, Executives--training of
Description: 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.
Date: 1951-16-03

Title: California Lecture Trip
Subject Heading: Sorokin, Pitirim A., Sociology
Description: File contains correspondence regarding an invitation to Sorokin to serve as visiting lecturer at San Fernando State Valley College; Sorokin's ill health which resulted in a delayed and shortened engagement; arrangements made by J.B. Ford for lectures at several universities, colleges, and institutions in California; and reactions to Sorokin's visits and addresses.
Date: 1959-1962

Title: Social and Cultural Dynamics (review)
Subject Heading: Sorokin, Pitirim A., Sociology, Sociology and Law, Sociology and social change
Description: A review of Sorokin's Social and Cultural Dynamics and how his research relates to the law. The three volumes on the social and cultural dynamics released by Sorokin outlines a general theory of social process based on a multitude facts observed in all areas of social life. For legal sociology these results are only partial, but very important. Archives de Philosophie du droit et de sosiologie juridique, Nos 3-4, 1937
Date: 1937

Title: Gurvitch, Georges
Subject Heading: Correspondence, Sociology
Description: 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.
Date: 1943-1964

Title: Bowditch, E. Francis
Subject Heading: Sociology, Sorokin, Pitirim A.
Description: File includes organization and proposed activities of the Center and Society; memoranda to the Executive Board and Council of the Society; publicity regarding : "Conference on New Knowledge in Human Values"; and a list of Society members. Correspondence regarding the establishment, growth, development, funding, administration, and meetings of the Research Society for Creative Altruism; conference arrangements, programme and activities of the Center and the Society; and Bowditch's activities as treasurer of the Society.
Date: 1955-1958

Title: American Journal of Sociology
Subject Heading: Sorokin, Pitirim A., Sociology, Correspondence, Human behavior, Socialization
Description: Included in the correspondence are letters from Herbert Blumer, one of the editors of the Journal of Sociology declining to publish a manuscript of Sorokins that refers to recent publications by Talcott Parsons. Reason being the journal is already thought of as being slanted towards the "Harvard group"; a letter to Peter M. Blau,editor of the American Journal of Sociology from Sorokin regarding his book and that had Sorokin read it before, he would have devoted a number of pages to its analysis, criticism and evaluation as he did in regards to Homan's works; article from Sorokin for the News and Notes section of the journal
Date: 1940-1965

Title: Correspondence - Winston Fan to Sorokin
Subject Heading: Sorokin, Pitirim A., Sociology, Chinese culture & civilization, Altruism, Dynamics, Communism, Economic systems, Correspondence, Fan, Winston
Description: Correspondence from Winston Fan with Sorokin about his discovery of Sorokin's Social and Cultural Dynamics, method of study and theories on the three systems of culture. The inspiration it has given him to understand Chinese social and cultural development and the Chinese Communists. Fan discusses his ideas and plans. With the aid of friends they plan to issue a manifesto called, "New Sphere For the March of Academic Workers" in aid of the formation of a free society in order to begin collective study.
Date: 1952

Title: Allen, (Prof.) Philip J
Subject Heading: Sociology, Sorokin, Pitirim A.
Description: Lists of contributors to Pitirim A. Sorokin in review; photostat of Huxley's refusal to contribute to the volume; outside readers' evaluation of the manuscript; and permission to quote from published sources. Correspondence re: a proposed a proposed volume on Sorokin's sociology together with accompanying difficulties in finding contributors and a publisher; Sorokin's "feuds" with some of his colleagues; translations of Sorokin's works; Toynbee's manuscript contributed for the volume; Sorokin's contributions to the volume; articles submitted by others; volume XII of Toynbee's Study of History; Festschrift volume in Sorokin's honor; Sorokin's attendance at Salzburg Congress; advertising the review volume on Sorokin's sociology; reawakening of Sorokin's works; Sorokin's autobiography and other recent writings; Sorokin's election to the presidency of the American Sociological Association; reviews; arrangements of the program of the 1966 meetings of the A.S.A.
Date: 1958-1966

Title: Establishment of Cultural Sociology (review of Social and Cultural Dynamics)
Subject Heading: Sorokin, Pitirim A., Sociology, Philosophy
Description: Social and Cultural Dynamics is a survey of the cultural development of the Western civilization for the past 25 hundred years. Sorokin's work shows beyond a doubt that every civilization must be understood through its historical development. How fluctuations in some cultural traditions explain the general condition of human society at any specific time. Fluctuations supply abundant approaches to understanding human associations and relations. Published in Social Science, October 1937
Date: 1937

Title: Social and Cultural Dynamics (review)
Subject Heading: Sorokin, Pitirim A., Sociology, Human relations, Philosophy, Culture, Book review, Civilization, Culture and society, Social theory
Description: Review of Sorokin's Social and Cultural Dynamics is aimed at analyzing the patterns of human conduct and human accomplishments, organizing and viewing them as a whole. In the opinion of the reviewer Sorokin's work differs from his predecessors. Firstly the shear amount of material collected by Sorokin and his collaborators covering all fields of history and cultural development; secondly being aware of the weaknesses of his predecessors Sorokin avoids the same mistakes by not being bias, letting the facts speak fort themselves. In the reviewer's opinion Sorokin writes not as a philosopher or prophet, but as a sociologist aware of procedural problems and constantly checking; thirdly, he is systematic surveying the various types of human behaviors, establishing the changes in each field, how long they last and in what order they occur. He uses data as a point of departure unlike his predecessors, who used the data as an illustration. The reviewer predicts that this monumental study will serve as a source and guide for the student of the philosophy of history in years to come
Date: 03-17-2011, 1937

Title: Augusta, Sister Marie
Subject Heading: Sociology, Sorokin, Pitirim A.
Description: File contains correspondence regarding: her master's thesis on Sorokin's theories; clarification of certain concepts; Sorokin's lectures at Emmanuel College in Boston; group dynamics; Harvard Research Center in Altruistic Integration and Creativity; and Sister Augusta's interest in a position at Harvard.
Date: 1952-1955

Title: Les types d'intégration socio-culturelle selon Pitirim Sorokin / Types of socio-cultural integration by Pitirim Sorokin
Subject Heading: Sorokin, Pitirim A., Sociology
Description: Article about Social and Cultural Dynamics written in French reprinted from Revuse des Sciences Economiques, April 1939
Date: 1939

Title: Eastern Psychological Association
Subject Heading: Sociology, Sorokin, Pitirim A.
Description: File includes correspondence regarding Harvard Research Center in Altruistic Integration and Creativity and its publications; "The Group" interested in research on war and peace; issues of Bulletin of the research exchange on the prevention of war; Sorokin's participation in the Association's symposium; and a copy of Sorokin's "Some activities of the Harvard Research Center in Creative Altruism.
Date: 1952-1953

Title: General Theory of Creativity
Subject Heading: Sociology, Sorokin, Pitirim A., Cognition and culture
Description: 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".
Date: 11-24-2009, 1961

Title: American Sociological Review
Subject Heading: Harvard University, Altruism, Correspondence, Sociology, Sorokin, Pitirim A., Publications
Description: "News and notes" from Harvard including information on Harvard Research Center in Altruistic Integration and Creativity and copy of letter to H. Hart re: review of Dynamics. Correspondence re: rejection of some contributions by Sorokin and the ensuing reactions; editorial policy and decisions; Sorokin's writings, activities, and honours; Sorokin's reviews of select works; information re: the establishment of Institut fur theoretische geschichte...; and "News and Announcements."
Date: 1937-1961

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