Carle C. Zimmerman, “Sorokin, The World’s Greatest Sociologist”

 

Carle C. Zimmerman, ‘Sorokin; The World’s Greatest Sociologist’

 

Posted above as a downloadable PDF file is the inaugural Annual Sorokin Lecture, which was presented by Pitirim A. Sorokin’s friend and former colleague, the sociologist Carle C. Zimmerman, at the University of Saskatchewan in 1968.

The University of Saskatchewan is a main repository of materials from the personal library of Sorokin, including letters, notebooks, photographs, books, original and revised manuscripts, Sorokin’s works in translation, and book reviews. The university holds an annual lecture in Sorokin’s honor, with the most recent lecture, in the 49th in the series, having been given in January 2018.

 

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The PDF file posted above contains the complete text of:

“Sorokin, The World’s Greatest Sociologist: His Life and Ideas on Social Time and Change”

Sorokin Lectures No. 1

delivered by Carle C. Zimmerman

University of Saskatchewan

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

1968

 

posted by Roger W. Smith

      June 2018

review of “The Crisis of Our Age”; The Thomist 1942

 

review of ‘The Crisis of Our Age’ – The Thomist, July 1942

 

Posted here (above) as a downloadable PDF file is a review of The Crisis of Our Age by Pitirim A. Sorokin:

The Crisis of Our Age by Pitirim A. Sorokin (review)

By Louis A. Ryan

The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review

Volume 4, Number 3 (July 1942), pp. 523-533

It is a very thorough and thoughtful as well as discerning review, and I thought it worth posting.

 

— Roger W. Smith

     June 2018