Joseph B Ford

Sorokin and Civilization

A Centennial Assessment

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Produktbeschreibung

Sorokin and Civilization is a festschrift to Pitirim Sorokin, one of the most famed figures of twentieth-century sociology and first president of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations (ISCSC)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781560002475
• ISBN-10: 1560002476
• Artikelnr.: 26193685

Autorenporträt

Joseph B. Ford

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Roger Williams Wescott
Part I: A Life Remembered
1. Sorokin's Life and Work
Barry V. Johnston
2. Sorokin Remembered
Edward A. Tiryakian
3. The Sorokin-Merton Correspondence on "Puritanism, Pietism, and Science,"
1933-34
Robert K. Merton
Part II: Sorokin as Gadfly
4. Snakes and Ladders: Parsons and Sorokin at Harvard
William Buxton
5. Sorokin and American Sociology: The Dynamics of a Moral Career in
Science
Lawrence T. Nichols
6. Sorokin's Challenge to Modernity
Palmer C. Talbutt
Part III: Sorokin's Methodology
7. Sorokin's Methodology: Integralism as the Key
Joseph B. Ford
8. Sorokin as Dialectician
Robert C. Hanson
9. Sorokin's Concept of Immanent Change
Robert G. Perrin
10. Civilizational Worldview as an Aggregate of Intuitions
David Richardson
Part IV: Applying Sorokin's Theories
11. Sorokin versus Toynbee on Civilization
David Wilkinson
12. Applying Sorokin's Typology
Michel P. Richard
13. An Empirical Assessment of Sorokin's Theory of Change
George A. Hillery, Jr.
Susan V. Mead
Robert G. Turner, Jr.
14. A Study of Generational Fluctuations in Philosophical Beliefs
Dean Keith Simonton
15. Sorokin's Vision of Altruistic Love as a Bridge to Human Consensus
Paul V. Crosbie
Samuel P. Oliner
16. Transitions, Revolutions, and Wars
William Eckhardt
Contributors
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index