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Pitirim Sorokin
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Russian sociologist (1889-1968)
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Pitirim Sorokin (1889–1968) was a sociologist, philosopher, university teacher, and politician. Born in the Russian Empire, he held citizenship in the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic and the United States. He was a member of the Komi people and spoke Russian. Sorokin was educated at Saint Petersburg State University and later taught at Harvard University and the University of Minnesota. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His 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*. His field of work encompassed sociology, criminology, ethnography, and political philosophy within the Western philosophy movement. He had one child, Peter Sorokin, and supervised doctoral student Robert K. Merton. Sorokin died in Winchester in 1968. His archives are held at the University of Saskatchewan.
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- 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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- 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
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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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