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Pitirim Sorokin
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Russian sociologist (1889-1968)
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Pitirim Sorokin (1889–1968) was a Russian-born sociologist, philosopher, and university teacher who also served as a politician. A member of the Komi ethnic group, he held citizenship in the Russian Empire, the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and the United States. Sorokin was educated at Saint Petersburg State University and later worked at the University of Minnesota and Harvard University. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and his doctoral student included Robert K. Merton.
His fields of work included sociology, criminology, ethnography, and political philosophy, with his work associated with the Western philosophy movement. Notable works include *Leaves from a Russian Diary*, *Systematic Source Book of Rural Sociology*, *Social and Cultural Dynamics*, *Dal'niaia Doroga: Autobiografiia*, and *Russia and the United States*. Sorokin was the father of Peter Sorokin and resided in the United States. He died in Winchester.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Leaves from a Russian Diary
- Man and Society in Calamity the Effects of War, Revolution, Famine, Pestilence Upon Human Mind, Behavior, Social Organization and Cultural Life
- Systematic Source Book of Rural Sociology
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Dal'niaia Doroga: Autobiografiia
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,659x
- The complete genome sequence of the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis
· 1997 · cited 2,817x
- Large Scale Growth and Characterization of Atomic Hexagonal Boron Nitride Layers
· 2010 · cited 2,570x
- A Multicenter, Randomized Trial of Treatment for Mild Gestational Diabetes
· 2009 · cited 1,820x
- Clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats (CRISPRs) have spacers of extrachromosomal origin
· 2005 · cited 1,487x
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Quotes
- “Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.”
- “Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently!”
- “The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones.”
- “Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon generally or their sublime form particularly.”
- “[In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions taken together. It has brought upon mankind more suffering than any other catastrophe.”
- “Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of death
- Winchester
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Employer
- University of Minnesota
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Doctoral student
- Robert K. Merton
- Field of work
- cultural anthropology
- Movement
- Western philosophy
- Image
- Питирим Сорокин.jpg
- Residence
- United States
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- date of birth
- 1889-01-21
- date of death
- 1968-02-12
- Commons category
- Pitirim Sorokin
- name in native language
- Питирим Александрович Сорокин
- archives at
- University of Saskatchewan
- ethnic group
- Komi people
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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Encyclopedic overview
Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin (/səˈroʊkɪn, sɔː-/; Russian: Питирим Александрович Сорокин; 4 February [O.S. 23 January] 1889 – 10 February 1968) was a Russian American sociologist and political activist, who contributed to the social cycle theory.
Sorokin was a professor at Saint Petersburg Imperial University, three times imprisoned by the Czarist regime for "revolutionary activity." His active opposition to the Bolsheviks led, after they were in power, to his arrest and sentence to death. Only with the help and intervention of friends, including Thomas Masaryk and Edouard Beneš, was his sentence commuted to permanent exile, which led Sorokin to flee to Czechoslovakia.
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