Bierstedt on Sorokin
Robert Bierstedt, ‘The Logico-Meaningful Method of Sorokin’ (rev of Dynamics); Sorokin ‘Rejoinder’
Bierstedt obit – NY TImes 9-17-1988
Posted here: an excerpt from the sociologist Robert Bierstedt’s Power and Progress: Essays on Sociological Theory (McGraw-Hill, 1974).
Robert Bierstedt (1913–1998) was a student of Sorokin who became a leading American sociologist. He headed the department of sociology at City College of New York and at New York University before becoming a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia. He was a graduate student at Harvard University during the 1930s.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
July 2024
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