Before accepting a position in the sociology department at the University of Minnesota, Pitirim A. Sorokin was a guest of Vassar College, where he gave lectures.
The following article appeared in the Vassar Miscellany News, March 18, 1931: “Scintillating Selz Sends in Successful Solutions”
The article noted that Katherine Selz ’31 was the winner of the college’s Chat Current Events contest.
The prize-winning answers included the following:
“Who said:
Q. ‘Men cannot be treated like mice and guinea pigs’?
A. Mr. Sorokin”
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This squib provides a revealing glimpse of Sorokin: the provocative lecturer and a sociologist who was firmly against what he called quantophrenia. And insight into what was Sorokin’s humanistic conception of sociology.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
March 2019
Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin 