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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"
