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Pitirim Sorokin
Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin was a Russian American sociologist and political activist, who contributed to the social cycle theory.
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culture · Russian sociologist (1889-1968) · sociologist · philosopher · university teacher · politician · writer · author · also Pitirim Sorokin, Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin, Pitirim A. Sorokin, Pitirim A Sorokin, Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin, Sorokin
Born 23 January 1889 · Died 10 February 1968 · Q319816
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1968· 1 entry
Died 1968-02-10.
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1965· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of the American Sociological Association (1965–1965).
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1963· 1 entry
After the influence from his former students and other high rank sociologists, he became the first write in nominated sociologist to be elected as president with 65% of the vote
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1961· 1 entry
When the United States were at a peak level of friction with Russia
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1952· 1 entry
Lost the election to Florian Znaniecki, and was not given the customary second nomination
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1951· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (1951).
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1950· 1 entry
Sorokin published an addendum to the book called The Thirty Years After
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1949· 1 entry
And had two instructors under him, Alfredo Gotsky and Talcott Parsons
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1930· 1 entry
Sorokin found his calling and began his famous study of world civilization which led to the work for which he is best known, Social and Cultural Dynamics
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1924· 1 entry
And, in 1930, he was hired as head of the newly formed department of sociology at Harvard University
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1922· 1 entry
Differ; he may have been arrested and exiled by the Soviet government, or he may have spent months in hiding before escaping the country
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1910· 1 entry
Young Sorokin was shaken to the core by the death of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy
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1889· 1 entry
Born 1889-01-23.
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1885· 1 entry
And his younger brother, Prokopy, was born in 1893
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