Sorokin and Civilization : a Centennial Assessment

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface Part I: A Life Remembered 1. Sorokin's Life and Work 2. Sorokin Remembered 3. The Sorokin-Merton Correspondence on ""Puritanism, Pietism, and Science, "" 1933-34 Part II: Sorokin as Gadfly 4. Snakes and Ladders: Parsons and Sorokin at Harvard 5. Sorokin and American Sociology: The Dynamics of a Moral Career in Science 6. Sorokin's Challenge to Modernity Part III: Sorokin's Methodology 7. Sorokin's Methodology: Integralism as the Key 8. Sorokin as Dialectician 9. Sorokin's Concept of Immanent Change. 10. Civilizational Worldview as an Aggregate of IntuitionsPart IV: Applying Sorokin's Theories 11. Sorokin versus Toynbee on Civilization 12. Applying Sorokin's Typology 13. An Empirical Assessment of Sorokin's Theory of Change 14. A Study of Generational Fluctuations in Philosophical Beliefs 15. Sorokin's Vision of Altruistic Love as a Bridge to Human Consensus 16. Transitions, Revolutions, and Wars Contributors Bibliography Name Index Subject Index.