Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin

 

1 ‘distinguished guests will deliver lectures’ – Harvard Crimson 3-19-1929

2 ‘new solution to social problems predicted by Sorokin’ – Harvard Crimson 3-26-1929

3 ‘Famous Russian Sociologist May Come to Harvard’ – Harvard Crimson 11-2-1929

4 ‘Sorokin accepts post on Harvard faculty’ – Harvard Crimson 1-14-1930

5 ‘Sorokin comes to Harvard to head field of sociology’ – Harvard Crimson 10-8-1930

6 ‘Sorokin finishes new collaborative work’ – Harvard Crimson 11-25-1930

7 ‘sociologists to attend New York convention’ – Harvard Crimson 4-12-1931

8 ‘Sorokin is nominated for council of sociology group’ – Harvard Crimson 4-28-1931

9 ‘Professor Sorokin satisfied with new sociology division’ – Harvard Crimson 10-18-1931

10 ‘sociologists top rest of college in mid-year marks’ – Harvard Crimson 3-4-1932

11 ‘The Dunster House Forum’ – Harvard Crimson 4-26-1932

12 ‘animal collective life is subject of new course’ – The Harvard Crimson 9-26-1932

13 ‘war is 2,000 times worse than in medieval time’ – Harvard Crimson 9-28-1933

14 Sorokin member of committee on University Training for Government Service – Harvard Crimson 1-10-1935

15 ‘Harvard Communist refuses to prostitute truth for advertisements’ – Harvard Crimson 2-21-1935

16 re Journal of Rural Sociology (Sorokin among editors) – Harvard Crimson 2-11-1936

17 ‘Sapped Vigor’ (re sociology dept) – Harvard Crimson 5-23-1936‘

18 ‘Haigis Endorsed by Thirteen Professors’ – Harvard Crimson 10-13-1936

19 re 1936 election – Harvard Crimson 10-13-1936

20 re Sorokin response to faculty critics of Dynamics – Harvard Crimson 12-15-1937

21 ‘Professors Attack War” – Harvard Crimson 2-18-1938

22 ‘Kerensky Puts Faith in Democracy’ – Harvard Crimson 3-10-1938

23 ‘American Culture in Era of Change, Sorokin declares’ – Harvard Crimson 11-2-1938

24 students sign petition for practical sociological course – Harvard Сrimson 1-10-1939

25 Sorokin receives petition for marriage course – Harvard Crimson 1-13-1939

26 re ‘Time Budgets of Human Behavior’ – Harvard Crimson 2-1-1939

27 ‘Bridgman Bans Fascists’ – Harvard Crimson 2-24-1939

28 ‘Faculty Men Support Bridgman’ – Harvard Crimson 2-25-1939

29 editorial re Bridgman ban on totalitarian scientists – Harvard Crimson 2-25-1939

29a ‘Sorokin Says New Union Proposals Are Totalitarian’ – Harvard Crimson 3-11-1939

30 ‘Professor Sorokin Criticizes Particulars of Tenure Report’ – Harvard Crimson 5-29-1939

30a ‘Sorokin Criticizes Particulars of Harvard Tenure Report’ – Harvard Crimson 5-29-1939

31 Sorokin says he prefers unjust peace – Harvard Crimson 10-28-1939

32 re Sorokin credo (conservative Christian anarchy) in Harvard Progressive – Harvard Crimson 2-29-1940

33 ‘Gorgeous Girls Offer Aid in Sorokin Admisison Plan’ – Harvard Crimson 11-25-1940

34 ‘Sorokin Plans Temptations for Ideal Entrance Exam’ – Harvard Crimson 11-29-1940

35 re Sorokin’s views on astrology – Harvard Crimson 1-24-1941

36 ‘Tenure Pot Boils Again’ – Harvard Crimson 3-21-1941

37 Faculty Profile (Clifton Fadiman) – Harvard Crimson 4-22-1941

38 review of The Crisis of Our Age – Harvard Crimson 11-3-1941

39 Sorokin to speak at Free French rally – Harvard Crimson 11-10-1941

41 Sorokin opposes plan to create a race of synthetic Germans – Harvarad Crimson 4-17-1942

42 Disney, Hooten – Harvard Crimson 2-4-1943

43 ‘No Double Cross by Russia, Says Sorokin’ – Harvard Crimson 4-23-1943

44 ‘Sorokin Foresees Decadence in Morale by Father Draft’ – Harvard Crimson 4-27-1943

45 Sorokin thinks Harvard men immune to co-ed temptations – Harvard Crimson 12-10-1943

46 Sorokin to lecture on Russia in postwar era – Harvard Crimson 8-29-1944

47 ‘Sorokin hits Hayek thesis’ – Harvard Crimson 4-13-1945

48 ‘newly-formed group to hold first meeting’ – Harvard Crimson 4-10-1945

49 re meeting – ‘is a planned economy the road to serfdom’ – Harvard Crimson 4-10-1945

50 Allport, Sorokin, Cherrington on San Francisco peace conference – Harvard Crimson 5-1-1945

51 ‘European Age at Its Close, Says Sorokin’ – Harvard Crimson 6-21-1945

52 Sorokin to speak at forum on Russia’s international aims – Harvard Crimson 10-2-1945

53 Sorokin speaks at forum; sees little hope for humanity – Harvard Crimson 12-14-1945

]54 ‘West going to dogs.’ says Sorokin (not so, rebuts Aiken) – Harvard Crimson 12-4-1946

55 ‘Rally Will Attack Draft, UMT Plans’ – Harvard Crimson 3-19-1948

56 ‘Faculty Members Attack Mundt-Nixon Anti-Red Bill’ – Harvard Crimson 5-22-1948

57 Sorokin, Kemble debate cultural signifiance of science – Harvard Crimson 11-5-1948

58 values for modern man discussed by Sorokin – Harvard Crimson 3-4-1949

59 Selfish World Doomed, Sorokin Says – Harvard Crimson 3-17-1950

60 ‘Sorokin, Aiken to Discuss Role of Modern Scientist’ – Harvard Crimson 10-27-1950

61 ‘students as happy now as in old days, Sorokin claims’ – Harvard Crimson 10-31-1950

62 friendship survey conducted under Sorokin’s guidance – Harvard Crimson 11-9-1950

63 professors debate foreign policy; Sorokin calls for disarmament – Harvard Crimson 3-28-1951

65 Porter Sargent obit – Harvard Crimson 3-28-1951

66 Sorokin attacks Parsons for failure to credit him – Harvard Crimson 12-12-1951

67 ‘Parsons calls Sorokin controversy on book’s similarities oversight’ – Harvard Crimson 12-13-1951

68 Sorokin decries Universal Military Training – Harvard Crimson 1-31-1952

69 Sorokin sponsor Students against Universal Military Training – Harvard Crimson 2-4-1952

70 ‘Pacifist Council Organizes’ – Harvard Crimson 2-16-1952

71 Sorokin declines to act as sponsor of Harvard Peace Council – Harvard Crimson 2-21-1952

72 ‘Thomas, Sorokin & Aiken Debate Declnie of Mortalty in U.S. Today’ – Harvard Crimson 11-8-1952

73 Sorokin among sponsors of Bostonians Allied for South African Resistance – Harvard Crimson 4-9-1953

74 ‘America heading into sex anarchy,’ Sorokin says – Harvard Crimson 2-25-1954

75 ‘Revolutionary Gardener’ (profile of Sorokin) – Harvard Crimson 5-1-1954

76 Sorokin among judges in Miss Radcliffe contest – Harvard Crimson 10-2-1954

77 Sorokin statement, actions re McCarthy censure – Harvard Crimson 12-2-1954

78 Sorokin opposed to new Social Relations center – Harvard Crimson 1-13-1955

79 Sorokin Plans Group to Develop Love for Love’s Sake’ – Harvard Crimson 4-28-1955

80 Altruism Center Probes Five-Dimensional Love – Harvard Crimson 5-25-1955

81 Society for Altruism To Receive Charter – Harvard Crimson 11-29-1955

82 ‘The Empire Builder’ (faculty profile, Talcott Parsons) – Harvard Crimson 5-16-1956

83 ‘Prof. Sorokin’s $100,000 report on love’ – Harvard Crimson 5-22-1956

84 ‘Sorokin claims altruistic social change only hope for mankind’ – Harvard Crimson 12-12-1956

85 ‘Sorokin attacks U.S. for sexual attitudes’ – Harvard Crimson 2-4-1957

86 ‘Professors Request End of Arms Race’ – Harvard Crimson 11-16-1957

87 ‘Sorokin warns Sensate culture will end in total disintegration’ – Harvard Crimson 10-10-1958

88 ‘Prophet’ (Sorokin profile) – Harvard Crimson 10-15-1958

89 Sorokin on altruism studies, Harvard center – Harvard Crimson 3-17-1959

90 ‘University Professors Support Conference For Nuclear Ban’ – Harvard Crimson 4-17-1959

91 ‘Pitirim A. Sorokin’ (profile) – Harvard Crimson 11-5-1966

92 review of ‘The Harrad Experiment’ (Sorokin mentioned) – The Harvard Crimson 3-4-1967

93 ‘Pitirim Sorokin Is Dead at Age 79’ – Harvard Crimson 2-12-1968

94 ‘Talcott Parsons (1902-1979)’ – Harvard Crimson 5-18-1979

 

Posted here are articles about Sorokin in The Harvard Crimson.

 

— oosted by Roger W. Smith

      July 2024

 

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addendum:

My father and older brother both graduated from Harvard College. My father took the courses Social Relations 1a and Social Relations 1b at Harvard during the 1948-49 academic year. Sorokin was not teaching them at the time. Social Relations 1a was taught by Gordon W. Allport. Social Relations 1b was taught by George Homans.

 

I grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a few blocks from Harvard Square.

Professor Harry Aiken is mentioned in one of the Crimson articles. I took a course with Professor Aiken at Brandeis University.

I also took a sociology course with Professor Lewis Coser (not mentioned here) at Brandeis University. He knew Sorokin personally.