‘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
Tag: Roger W. Smith
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
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
“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
“A Sociologist’s Political Memories”
review of Leaves from a Russian Diary – Chicago Evening Post 1-30-1925
Posted here:
“A Sociologist’s Political Memories”
review of Sorokin, Leaves from a Russian Diary
reviewed by Lawrence Martin
The Chicago Evening Post Literary Review
January 30, 1925
*****************************************************
a “footnote”
I read Sorokin’s Leaves years ago, after “discovering” him. It was the second Sorokin book I read (after The Crisis of Our Age). It was unforgettable; it made a very strong impression of me.
This review conveys the excitement that the book conveyed. And it hints at some of its weaknesses, which I would say are those of a lot of good storytellers: a tendency at times to exaggeration and of, at times, “polishing the apple,” which is to say “prettying” incidents for effect.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
February 2024
a visit to 8 Cliff Street
On May 24, 2017, on a trip to Massachusetts, I made a stop in Winchester (a town near Cambridge), where Pitirim A. Sorokin, his wife Elena, and their sons lived. Both of Sorokin’s sons graduated from Winchester High School.
I know the area well, having grown up in Cambridge. My father grew up in nearby Arlington. A musician and piano teacher, he had many piano students in Winchester and was involved in musical productions there.
Sorokin and family resided at 8 Cliff Street in Winchester.
I was interested not only to see the residence of a world renowned scholar and writer, but also to see the house because it was famous for its grounds: a garden developed and maintained by Sorokin himself, for which he had won awards from horticultural societies and of which he was proud.
I drove up the block, which was on a steep ascent, using GPS to guide me. The GPS system advised me that I had arrived at my destination, 8 Cliff Street, on my left. I saw 6 Cliff Street, but where was number 8? Number 8 was shrouded and hidden by a profusion of flowering bushes. It reminded me of the Forest of Thorns in “Sleeping Beauty.”
‘Winchester Hillside Aglow with Azaleas’ – Boston Globe 5-23-1954
— posted by Roger W. Smith
February 2024
*****************************************************
Pitirim A. Sorokin residence, 8 Cliff St., Winchester, MA. Photographs by Roger W. Smith
Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin 