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Sorokin's Contribution to American Sociology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Samuel P. Oliner
Samuel P. Oliner*
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Humboldt State University
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I first heard of Pitirim A. Sorokin some twenty years ago as an undergraduate student. Although his name was frequently invoked by my sociology professors, it was just as frequently dismissed. Sorokin, I quickly learned, was outdated and irrelevant as far as sociology was concerned, and indeed, did not merit any of my serious reading attention. I must shamefacedly confess that I readily accepted this judgment. Its utterance admitted me into the ranks of the sociological cognoscenti of that time in one bold stroke, and simultaneously relieved me of the necessity of plowing through some thousands of pages of print which constituted the formidable quantity of Sorokin's publications. Hence, there is some degree of irony and more than an ordinary degree of pleasure in accepting the task of assessing Sorokin's contribution to American sociology. For as I have since learned, Sorokin made an enormous contribution to the development of the discipline–and his works will continue to do so in the future.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , Fall 1976 , pp. 125 - 151
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Copyright © 1976 by the Association for the Study of the Nationalities (USSR and East Europe) Inc. 

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A partial compilation of works by and about Sorokin. Included here are major references to Sorokin's works.Google Scholar
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