Pitirim A. Sorokin Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 2 pages of information about the life of Pitirim A. Sorokin.

Pitirim A. Sorokin Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 2 pages of information about the life of Pitirim A. Sorokin.
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American sociologist, social critic, and educator Pitirim A. Sorokin (1889-1968) was a leading exponent of the importance of values and broad knowledge in an era dominated by science and power. Pitirim Sorokin was born in the village of Turya, Russia, on January 21, 1889. His training was concentrated at the University of St. Petersburg, though he also studied at the Psycho-Neurological Institute in the same city. From 1914 to 1916 he taught at the institute and then at the university, where he was a professor of sociology from 1919 to 1922.

After serving as secretary to Kerensky, Sorokin was forced to leave the country by the Soviet government. A brief period in Czechoslovakia was followed by several lectureships in the United States, where he was appointed professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota (1924-1930). Sorokin founded the Department of Sociology at Harvard University, where he remained until his retirement in 1959. He was elected...

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