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Title: Sorokin Maps a School to Train Temptation-Proof Ruling Class
Subject Heading: Students--Conduct of life, Universities and colleges--Entrance examinations
Description: Article is about Sorokins proposal of a revolutionary entrance exam for the ideal college. File folder contains clippings from various media.
Date: 12-03-2009, 1940

Title: Reconstruction of Humanity
Subject Heading: Sorokin, Pitirim A., Sociology, Moral behavior, Humanity, Culture, Harvard University
Description: 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.
Date: 1948-1952, 01-04-2010

Title: Sociocultural Casusality, Space, Time
Subject Heading: Sociology, Sorokin, Pitirim A., MacIver, Robert M., Sociology, Science, culture, and society
Description: Comparison of R. M. MacIver's book Social Causation and Pitirim Sorokin's book.
Date: 11-26-2009, 1943-10

Title: Crisis of Our Age - The Social and Cultural Outlook
Subject Heading: Sociology, Sorokin, Pitirim A., Civilization -- Philosophy, History -- Philosophy, Culture, Ethics, Truth, Freedom
Description: Book review published in Sociologica, vol. VI, no. 1, 1944
Date: 11-26-2009, 1944

Title: Sorokin's Data Versus his Conclusions
Subject Heading: Sorokin, Pitirim A., Sociology, Statistical analysis, Civilization--Philosophy, Hisotry--Philosophy, Culture
Description: Article reprinted from American Sociological Review. A critical analysis of Sorokin's statistical data. Folder contains 2 copies
Date: 27-11-2009, 1939

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: Sorokin-Gini Correspondence
Subject Heading: Sociology, Sorokin, Pitirim A.
Description: Correspondence between Pitirim A. Sorokin and Corrado Gini, often concerning the International Institute of Sociology.
Date: 1927-06-1963-04, 3 September 2009

Title: History of Social Thought
Subject Heading: Sorokin, Pitirim A., Sociology, Notes, Philosophy and society, Research
Description: Manuscript of lectures; research notes and discussion papers
Date: 1916

Title: Contributions to the Research Society for Creative Altruism, Reseaerch Center for Creative Altruism: Administration Files
Subject Heading: Administration, Receipts, Sorokin, Pitirim A., Sociology
Description: Contributions made to the Research Society for Creative Altruism; petty cash vouchers from Harvard to the Research Center in Creative Altruism
Date: 1958-1969

Title: Huang, Wen-Shan
Subject Heading: Sociology, Correspondence, Sorokin, Pitirim A.
Description: 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
Date: 1960-1966

Title: Hirschfeld, Gerhard
Subject Heading: Sorokin, Pitirim A., Correspondence, Sociology
Description: 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
Date: 1949-1958

Title: Hobbs, A. H.
Subject Heading: Sorokin, Pitirim A., Sociology
Description: 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".
Date: 1953-1960

Title: Henrich, Joachim
Subject Heading: Sorokin, Pitirim A., Correspondence, Sociology
Description: 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
Date: 1947-1954

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: 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: Georgetown University
Subject Heading: Correspondence, Sorokin, Pitirim A, Speeches, addresses, etc.
Description: 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
Date: 1939-1958

Title: Pitirim Sorokin A.: a Memorial Minute Adopted By the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Harvard University
Subject Heading: Sorokin, Pitirim A.
Description: The life and times of Pitirim Sorokin principal founder and first chairman of the Department of Sociology at Harvard.
Date: 1968-12-3

Title: Harvard University
Subject Heading: Sorokin, Pitirim A., Correspondence, Sociology, Finance
Description: 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;
Date: 1946-1958

Title: Harman, Willis W.
Subject Heading: Sorokin, Pitirim A., Altruism, LSD(Drug)
Description: 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.
Date: 1958

Title: Hart, Hornell
Subject Heading: Sorokin, Pitirim A., Correspondence
Description: Correspondence between Sorokin and Hart regarding various published works; two articles by Hornell Hart, "Sorokin and Sensate Civilization" and "A Memorandum on "Creative Discussion"
Date: 1937-1956

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