Stalking Sociologists by Renee C. Fox

Author:Renee C. Fox [Fox, Renee C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9781351488228
Google: IiAxDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05T04:33:18+00:00

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1 Pitirim A. Sorokin, “Sociology of My Mental Life,” in Pitirim A. Sorokin in Review, ed. Phillip J. Allen (Durham: Duke University Press, 1963), 30.

2 For a more detailed account, see Pitirim A. Sorokin, A Long Journey: The Autobiography of Pitirim Sorokin (New Haven: College and University Press, 1963), as well as Sorokin, “Sociology of My Mental Life.” More recently, see Barry Johnston, Pitirim A. Sorokin: An Intellectual Biography (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1995), an excellent comprehensive intellectual biography. Joseph B. Ford, Michel P. Richard, and Palmer C. Talbutt, Sorokin and Civilization: A Centennial Assessment (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1996), is a series of critical essays on Sorokin’s work.

3 Carle C. Zimmerman, Sorokin: The World’s Greatest Sociologist (Saskatoon: University of Saskatchewan Press, 1968), 20.

4 Ibid., 19–20. See also Johnston, An Intellectual Biography, 16–17.

5 According to Sorokin, for the last twenty-five centuries Western civilization had cycled through a variety of cultural forms. Each form was defined by the fundamental conception of reality which informed its epis-temology and dominated all of its social institutions, norms, and values. Ideational defined reality as nonmaterial, Sensate as mainly material and sensory, and Idealistic as a kind of rational synthesis of the other two. Periods of each type were separated by crises and determined by operations of the Principle of Immanent Determinism, the inherent potentiality within each system as opposed to external forces, and the Principle of Limits, a kind of dialectic process which would shift momentum toward the opposite type as a civilization became increasingly dominated by its opposing form. Epistemologically and ontologically Sorokin argued that reality consists of spirit, mind, and body and therefore could only be known through a synthesis of intuition, reason, and the senses, or what he referred to as Integralism. He attempted to give some idea of what an integral sociology would look like in Pitirim A. Sorokin, Sociocultural Causality, Space, and Time (Durham: Duke University Press, 1943).

6 Johnston, An Intellectual Biography, 125.

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