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Sixteen essays written in homage to sociologist Sorokin, first president of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations (ISCSC) who exchanged ideas with Trotsky, Pavlov, and anticipated the work of Mills and Solzehnitsyn. The contributors offer up reminisces of the Sorokin's life and work, examine the challenges he made to orthodox sociology, and discuss his dialecticism and the applications of his theory to civilization and philosophy. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Sorokin and Civilization is a festschrift to Pitirim Sorokin, one of the most famed figures of twentieth-century sociology and first president of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations (ISCSC). He was a giant of the twentieth-century stage in the larger world as well. He debated with Trotsky, exchanged ideas with Pavlov, and received a personal invitation to meet with President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia. His principled dissent from sociological orthodoxy frequently anticipated that of Charles Wright Mills, Alfred McClung Lee, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. He was, to paraphrase Joseph Ford, a scholar among statesmen and a statesmen among scholars.

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