Sorokin – Harvard Crimson

 

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.

Юрий Дойков, “Почему молчал Питирим Сорокин?; От Лубянки до Гарварда (1918-1930)” [Yuri Doykov. Why was he silent?; Pitirim Sorokin? From the Lubyanka to Harvard (1918-1930)]

 

Yuri Doykov, ‘Why Was He Silent’

Yuri Doykov, ‘Why Was He Silent’ RUSSIAN

Yuri Doykov, ‘Why Was He Silent’ ENGLISH

 

posted here:

Юрий Дойков, Почему молчал Питирим Сорокин?; От Лубянки до Гарварда (1918-1930) [Yuri Doykov, Why was he silent?; Pitirim Sorokin? From the Lubyanka to Harvard (1918-1930)]

The Russian original is posted as both as a PDF and Word document.

The English translation (Word document above) is by Roger W. Smith.

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

     July 2o24

Sorokin, Preface to “Social Mobility”

 

‘Social Mobility’ – Preface, etc

 

Posted here (PDF above):

Editor’s Introduction (by F. Stuart Chapin)

Sorokin’s Preface

Pitirim Sorokin, Social Mobility, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

     June 2024

КОРДУН, «СОЦИОЛОГИЯ РЕВОЛЮЦИИ» ПИТИРИМА СОРОКИНА (Kordun, “The Sociology of Revolution” of Pitirim Sorokin]

 

Kordun, ‘The Sociology of Revolution of Pitirim Sorokin’

Kordun, ‘The Sociology of Revolution of Pitirim Sorokin’ RUSSIAN

Kordun, ‘The Sociology of Revolution of Pitirim Sorokin’ ENGLSH

 

Posted here, in the original Russian and English translation:

В.А. КОРДУН, «СОЦИОЛОГИЯ РЕВОЛЮЦИИ» ПИТИРИМА СОРОКИНА: НАУЧНЫЙ ТРУД И АВТОР: СУДЬБА В ЭМИГРАЦИИ (V. A. Kordun, “The Sociology of Revolution” of Pitirim Sorokin: Scholarship and the Author: His Destiny as an Emigrant)

translation by Roger W. Smith and Natalia S. Sergieva

Herbert Hoover letter to Sorokin

 

Herbert Hoover to Sorokin 2-2-1926

 

Posted here as a Word document: a letter from Herbert Hoover, then Secretary of Commerce, to Sorokin, dated February 2, 1926.

— posted by Roger W Smith

     April 2024

 

 

a critical review of Sorokin’s “Sociological Theories of Today”

 

review of Sociological Theories of Today – Sociological Bulletin, March 1967

 

posted here (PDF above)

review of Sociological Theories of Today

By Pitirim A. Sorokin

reviewed by D. Narain

Sociological Bulletin

Volume 16, Number 1 (March 1967)

pp. 95-100

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

      April 2024

a critical review of Sorokin’s “Fads and Foibles”

 

Jean Floud review of ‘Fads and Foibles in Modern Sociology’

 

posted here (PDF above)

review of Fads and Foibles in Modern Sociology and Related Sciences

By Pitirim A. Sorokin

reviewed by Jean Floud

British Journal of Educational Studies

Volume VI, Number 1 (November 1957)

pp. 84-86

Jean Esther Floud (1915-2013) was a prominent sociologist. She was the Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, from 1972 to 1983.

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

      April 2024

Sorokin’s letter to Lenin

 

dated December 4, 1918

English translation by Roger W. Smith and Natalia Sergieva

 

letter to Lenin RUSSIAN

letter to Lenin ENGLISH

 

See Word documents above.

 

– posted by Roger W. Smith

   March 2024

 

 

 

some favorite Sorokin photos

 

Most of these have already been posted by me elsewhere.

— Roger W. Smith

 

Sorokin 1917
Elena 1917
Sorokin and Elena with her family, Tambov
Kondratieff (left) and Sorokin with wives, Minnesota
Sorokin family, Winchester

Sorokin, summer home, Canada
Sorokin at writing desk, Winchester
Peter P. Sorokin
Dr. Sergei P. Sorokin
Sergei P. Sorokin

“He is to me like God,” wrote an awestruck Freshman.

 

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

 

Posted here (Word document above) is the following article about Sorokin:

“Faculty Profile”

The Harvard Crimson

April 22, 1941

 

– posted by Roger W Smith

     March 2023