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--User:LuluThrower I don't know if I'm doing this right, but I say excellent job. I have nothing to add! --Djjr (talk) 05:14, 3 November 2011 (UTC) Excellent start!

--Djjr (talk) 18:28, 30 October 2011 (UTC)Go for it. See the template for first steps that I sent out.

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 * I have created my sandbox::


 * I think I would like to take on Pitirim Sorokin
 * I noticed that there needs to be citations and maybe some of his works need more detail
 * Prof. Ryan, what do you think?

Article Assessment and Assembling Sources

 * No existing commentary on page

Outline of Article

 * 1.Biography (~195 words)
 * 2 Works (~400 words)
 * 3 References (2)
 * 4 External Links (6 - 3 in Russian)

Fill in the blanks assignment for Pitirim Sorokin

 * Five main issues I will deal with on my page are trying to update his biography to include family and personal life
 * Figuring out what/why he was a big proponent of anti-communism
 * Adding one more book to his works section with summary
 * Trying to add more to an existing summary of his work, perhaps on Fads and Foibles or The Crisis of Our Age
 * Adding some of his works that are omitted from the publication list

Five references that I will use

 * 1.Deviance And Social Science: The Instructive Historical Case Of Pitirim Sorokin by Lawrence T. Nichols. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 2, (October 1989), pp.335, 337, 341.
 * Sorokin, Pitirim (1927). Social Mobility. New York and London: Harper & Brothers.
 * Sorokin, Pitirim (1942). Man and Society in Calamity. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc.
 * Sorokin, Pitirim (1928). Contemporary Sociological Theories. New York and London: Harper & Brothers.
 * Sorokin, Pitirim (1948). The Reconstruction of Humanity. Boston: The Beacon Press.
 * Sorokin, Pitirim. (Aug. 1938). A Neglected Factor of War. American Sociological Association, 3, 475-486.
 * 1.Deviance And Social Science: The Instructive Historical Case Of Pitirim Sorokin by Lawrence T. Nichols. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 2, (October 1989), pp.335, 337, 341

Below are things in the existing Wikipedia article that are in need of references

 * The first paragraph actually notes that a citation is needed after a quote in which Sorokin is referred to as a 'pest of man':
 * In the Biography section alone there are at least three places where there should be references, including the comment that Sorokin was a member of Kerensky's Russian Provisional Government," his emigration & naturalization dates. and his dates as professor are all listed. Under the Works section, there are several more places where references are missing. The article discusses the content of two books of Sorokins (Leaves of a Russian Diary and The Thirty Years After.  It seems like these should have references, though I'm not completely sure about this.  Also in the Works section, there is mention of several other interests Sorokin had, and that should be referenced, as well. Later in the Works section, there is discussion about how Sorokin interpreted contemporary Western civilization" and this should have a reference, too.

Here are the five most important biographical facts about Sorokin

 * He was opposed to Communism
 * He was in the Russian Revolution
 * He emigrated to the US
 * He created the sociology department at Harvard
 * He established a research institute at Harvard, devoted to the cause of altruism and love

Works section

 * In the Works section of the article, only 4 works are listed. One major work is listed, and the assumption is that the other works are minor.  I'm not sure how I would update this?

To do list

 * 1. Get the Sorokin biography from Cal State East Bay
 * 2. Review online biographies
 * 3. See if I can find out anything about him through Harvard
 * 4. Assemble info and add to actual biography

Pitirim Sorokin article I am working on and two edits to the intro
Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin (Russian:Russian Питири́м Алекса́ндрович Соро́кин; January 21, 1889 – February 11, 1968) was a Russian-American Russian American sociologist born in Komi (Finno-Ugric region of Russia). Ancademic and political activist in Russia, he emigrated from Russia to the United States United States in 1923. In 1930 at age 40, Sorokin was personally requested by the president of Harvard University Harvard University to accept a position there. At Harvard, he founded the Department of Sociology. He was a vocal opponent of Talcott Parsons' Talcott Parsons theories. Sorokin was an ardent opponent of communism, which he regarded as a "pest of man."[citation needed] He is best known for his contributions to the social cycle theory. Contents [hide] 1 Biography 2 Works 3 See also 4 Publications 5 On Sorokin 6 References 7 External links 8 See also [edit]Biography

In the early 1900s, supporting himself as an artisan and clerk, Sorokin attended the University of St. Petersburg University of St. Petersburg where he earned his graduate degree in criminology and obtained his first job as a professor. Sorokin was an anti-communist, who during the Russian Revolution Russian Revolution was a member of the Social Revolutionary Party Social Revolutionary Party. This was also the time he met and married Dr. Helen Baratynskaya, with whom he would later have two sons. During the Russian Revolution, Sorokin was a secretary to Prime Minister Alexander Kerensky Alexander Kerensky who was a leader in the Russian Constituent Assembly. Russian Constituent Assembly After the October Revolution, October Revolution Sorokin continued to fight communist leaders, and was arrested by the czarist regime several times before he was eventually condemned to death by Lenin Lenin himself. After six weeks in prison, he was set free and went back to teaching at the University of St. Petersburg. In 1918, he went on to become the founder of the sociology department at the University of St. Petersburg. In 1922 Sorokin was again arrested and this time exiled by the Soviet Government. He emigrated in 1923 to the United State where he began a professorship at the University of Minnesota (1924-30) and was naturalized Naturalized in 1930. Sorokin was professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota (1924–30) and at Harvard University (1930–59).

[edit]Works

Before his achievements as a professor in the United States he published his diary, Leaves of a Russian Diary, in 1924 by (E.P. Dutton & Co.), giving his personal daily, and sometimes hourly account of the Russian Revolution which actually first started in February of 1917 where he was in the forefront of creating a provisionary government only to see it unravel and lose power to the Bolsheviks in October 1917. In 1950 Sorokin published an addendum to the book called The Thirty Years After It is a personal and brutally honest account of the revolution and of his exile.

Sorokin's academic writings are extensive; throughout his lifetime he wroth 37 books and more than 400 articles. His controversial theories of social process and the historical typology of cultures are expounded in Social and Cultural Dynamics (4 vol., 1937–41; rev. and abridged ed. 1957) and many other works. Sorokin was also interested in social stratification, the history of sociological theory, and altruistic behavior.

Sorokin had three major theories: social differentiation, social stratification and social conflict. Social differentiation describes three types of societal relationships. The first is familistic, which is they type that we would generally strive for. It is the relationship that has the most solidarity, the values of everyone involved are considered, and there is a great deal of interaction.

Social stratification refers to the fact that all societies are stratified, with upper and lower strata and unequal distribution of wealth, power, and influence across strata. There is always some mobility between these strata. People or groups may move up or down on the hierarchy, acquiring or losing their power and influence.

Social Conflict refers to Sorokin’s theory on war. Peace whether internal to a nation or international, is based on the similarity of values among the people of a nation or between different nations. War has a destructive phase, when values are destroyed, and then a declining phase, when some of values are restored. Sorokin also theorized that the number of wars would decrease if there were increased solidarity and decreased antagonism. He felt that if a society’s values stressed altruism instead of egoism, the incidence of war would be decreased.

Sorokin is author of books such as The crisis of our age and Power and morality, but his magnum opus is Social and Cultural Dynamics (1937–1941). His unorthodox theories contributed to the social cycle theory and inspired (or alienated) many sociologists. In his Social and Cultural Dynamics he classified societies according to their 'cultural mentality', which can be ideational (reality is spiritual), sensate (reality is material), or idealistic (a synthesis of the two). He suggested that major civilizations evolve through these three in turn: ideational, idealistic, sensate. Each of these phases of cultural development not only seeks to describe the nature of reality, but also stipulates the nature of human needs and goals to be satisfied, the extent to which they should be satisfied, and the methods of satisfaction. Sorokin has interpreted the contemporary Western civilisation as a sensate civilisation dedicated to technological progress and prophesied its fall into decadence and the emergence of a new ideational or idealistic era. In Fads and foibles, he criticizes Lewis Terman's Genetic Studies of Genius research, showing that his selected group of children with high IQs did about as well as a random group of children selected from similar family backgrounds would have done.[1] Sorokin's papers are currently held by the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada where they are available for the public. In March 2009 the Sorokin Research Center was established at the facilities of Syktyvkar State University in the Republic of Komi for the purpose of research and publication of archive materials, mainly from the collection at the University of Saskatchewan. The first research project “Selected Correspondence of Pitirim Sorokin: Scientist from Komi on The Service of Humanity” (in Russian) has been drafted and will be in print in the Fall of 2009 in Russia.[2] [edit]See also

Integral movement Social cycle theory War cycles [edit Major Works "Society, Culture, and Personality: Their Structure and Dynamics, A System of General Sociology", Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York & London, 1947 (723 double columned pages plus an 11 triple coumned page Index and a 7 triple columned page Index of Names) [edit]On Sorokin Sorokin, Pitirim Aleksandrovich (1954/2002). The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation. Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation Press (Original work published 1954). ISBN 1890151866. (with introduction by Stephen G. Post in 2002 edition) (552 pages) Fads and foibles in modern sociology and related sciences. Chicago, H. Regnery Co., 1956, OCoLC 609427839. Reprinted by Greenwood Publishing Group, 1976, ISBN 978-0-8371-8733-4. (with Lunden, W. A.), Power and morality: who shall guard the guardians? Boston, MA: Porter Sargent Publishers, 1959. Social and Cultural Dynamics: A Study of Change in Major Systems of Art, Truth, Ethics, Law and Social Relationships (1957 (reprinted 1970) ed.). Boston: Extending Horizons Books, Porter Sargent Publishers. ISBN 0-87558-029-7. The crisis of our age, Chatam, NY: Oneworld Publications, Ltd, 1992 Teaming up: making the transition to a self-directed, team-based organization (1995). ISBN 978-0-0705-1646-5

Cuzzort, R. P. and King, E. W., Twentieth-Century social thought (5th ed.). New York, NY: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1995 Gambescia, C., Invito alla lettura di Sorokin. Rome, Italy: Edizioni Settimo Sigillo, 2002 Johnston, B.V (1995). Pitirim A. Sorokin an Intellectual Biography. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. Nieli, Russell (2006). "Critic of the sensate culture: rediscovering the genius of Pitirim Sorokin". The Political Science Reviewer (Intercollegiate Studies Institute) 35: 264–379. ISSN 0091-3715. [edit]References

^ Gladwell, Malcolm (2008). Outliers. New York. pp. 90. ISBN 978-0-316-03669-6. ^ "Sorokin Research Center (Russia, Komi Republic, Syktyvkar)" (in Russian). Sorokin Research Center. Retrieved 2009-09-11. ^ Encyclopedia Of Religion 2nd Edition (2005). pp. 8524. [edit]External links

Sorokin Research Center (Russia, Komi Republic, Syktyvkar) (in Russian) Sorokin Research Center in LiveJournal (in Russian) Community in LiveJournal (in Russian) American Sociological Association page Pitirim Sorokin Collection in Canada Culture in crisis: the visionary theories of Pitirim Sorokin Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Pitirim Sorokin [edit]See also

Komi Republic Sorokin Research Center