Sorokin, P(itirim) A(lexandrovitch)

Sorokin, P(itirim) A(lexandrovitch)
born Jan. 21, 1889, Turya, Russia
died Feb. 10, 1968, Winchester, Mass., U.S.

Russian-born U.S. sociologist.

Appointed the first professor of sociology at the University of Petrograd in 1919, he was exiled in 1922 for anti-Bolshevism. He immigrated to the U.S., where he founded the sociology department at Harvard University. He distinguished two kinds of society, the sensate (empirical, supportive of natural sciences) and the ideational (mystical, anti-intellectual, dependent on authority), and believed that the study of altruistic love as a science was necessary to avert worldwide chaos.

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  • Sorokin, P(itirim) A(lexándrovitch) — (21 ene. 1889, Turia, Rusia–10 feb. 1968, Winchester, Mass., EE.UU.). Sociólogo estadounidense de origen ruso. En 1919 se convirtió en el primer profesor de sociología de la Universidad de Petrogrado, pero en 1922 fue exiliado por sus ideas… …   Enciclopedia Universal

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