This vocabulary article, written by Pitirim Sorokin and published in Philosphen-Lexikon: Handworterbuch der Philosophie nach Personen in 1950, was translated into English for the journal Science in Сontext in 1989. Pictures by Sorokin_Lives.com



Sorokin, Pitirim Alexandrovich, born January 21, 1889, in the small village of Tuna in Russia [died 1968]. Student at the Teachers'Seminary in the province of Kostroma in Russia (1903-6), at the evening school in St. Petersburg (1907-9), at the Psycho-Neurological Institute in St. Petersburg (1910-14); Magistrant of Criminal Law (1915); Ph.D in Sociology (1922); Privatdozent at the Psycho-Neurological Institute (1914-16), at the University of St. Petersburg (1916-17); Professor of Sociology at the same university (1919-22); Professor of Sociology at the Agricultural Academy (1919-22), at the University of Minnesota (1924-30); Chairman of the Department of Sociology at Harvard University from 1930 Member of the Executive Committee of the All-Russian Peasant's Soviet (1917); Secretary to the Prime Minister [Kerensky] (1917); member of the Russian Constitutional Assembly (1918); sentenced to death and finally exiled by the communist administration (1922); emigrated to the United States (1923), naturalized (1930). Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Sociological Association; honorary member of the International Institute of Sociology of the Czechoslovakian Academy for Agriculture, of the German Sociological Society, and of the Ukrainian Sociological Society; President of the International Institute for Sociology (1936-37). Member of the Greek-Orthodox Church.