Pitirim Sorokin citáty

Pitirim Aleksandrovič Sorokin byl komi-rusko-americký sociolog a teoretik kultury. Jako akademický a politický aktivista v Rusku emigroval do Spojených států v roce 1923. Na Harvardově univerzitě založil katedru sociologie.

Stejně jako C. W. Mills byl hlasitým odpůrcem Parsonsovy teorie. Sorokin je také znám pro své příspěvky k sociální cyklické teorii. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. leden 1889 – 10. únor 1968
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“Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently!”

Pitirim Sorokin (1937) Social and Cultural Dynamics http://books.google.nl/books?id=fbZyka2W_1cC. p. 283

“Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.”

Pitirim Sorokin (1964) The basic trends of our times http://books.google.nl/books?id=SXrO4qCbmMIC, p. 39

“[In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions taken together. It has brought upon mankind more suffering than any other catastrophe.”

Pitirim Sorokin (1954) http://books.google.nl/books?id=DGCleCxTkbIC The Ways and Power of Love http://what-when-how.com/love-in-world-religions/altruistic-love/. p. 461; As cited in: "[ Altruistic Love]" on what-when-how: In Depth Tutorials and Information

“The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones.”

Pitirim Sorokin (1942) Man and Society in Calamity http://books.google.nl/books?id=KackGHJUko8C. E. P. Dutton. p. 66; as cited in: Lewis Petrinovich (2000) The cannibal within. p. 177