Sorokin P.A. Social and cultural dynamics. A Study of change in Major Systems of art, truth, ethics, law and Social relationships

Abstract

The main work of the outstanding Russian-American sociologist P.A. Sorokin (1889-1968) was published in the USA in four volumes in 1937-1941 and in subsequent years gained fame as a classic work in the field of sociology and cultural studies. The main pathos of the work is the denial of universal natural—historical laws, acting like the laws of nature, with "iron necessity". Based on the analysis of a huge statistical material, Sorokin proved that throughout human history there is an alternate change of three "supersystems": sensate, ideational and idealistic. The future is not predetermined, and what it will be, Sorokin believes, depends on each of us. The book has been translated into almost all European languages and a number of Asian ones. In 1957, Sorokin prepared an abridged and adapted edition of Social and Cultural Dynamics, from which the present translation was made. The translation is provided with extensive comments and an annotated index of names.

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