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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Sorokin, Pitirim Aleksandrovich, 1889-1968. Society, culture, and personality. New York, Cooper Square Publishers, 1962 (OCoLC)610158916 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin |
| OCLC Number: | 309975 |
| Description: | 742 p. illus. 27 cm. |
| Contents: | Foreword -- Preface -- PART ONE: SOCIOLOGY: ITS OBJECT, METHOD AND DEVELOPMENT: Sociology as a science -- Development of sociology -- PART TWO: STRUCTURAL SOCIOLOGY: Generic structure of sociocultural phenomena -- PART THREE: STRUCTURE OF THE SOCIAL UNIVERSE: Organized system of interaction; groups or institutions -- Solidary, antagonistic, and mixed systems of interaction -- Factors of solidarity and antagonism -- The roles of similarity and dissimilarity in social solidarity and antagonism -- The organized group as a collective unity -- Classification of organized groups -- PART FOUR: SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION AND STRATIFICATION: Differentiation of human population into biosocial groups -- Differentiation of human population into sociocultural groups -- Differentiation of human population into sociocultural groups (continued) -- Differentiation of human population into multibonded groups -- Differentiation of human population into multibonded groups (continued) -- Social stratification -- Population as agglomerations of groups (Types of society) -- PART FIVE: STRUCTURES OF THE CULTURAL AND PERSONALITY ASPECTS OF THE SUPERORGANIC UNIVERSE: Structure of the cultural universe -- The actual structure of the total culture of individuals, groups, and areas -- Sociocultural structure of personality -- The structure of sociocultural space -- PART SIX: DYNAMICS OF THE RECURRENT SOCIAL PROCESSES: How groups originate and become organized -- How social groups maintain their identity and continuity -- How groups acquire, exchange, distribute, and lose their vehicles -- How social groups recruit, exchange, and lose their members: general horizontal mobility -- The differential horizontal mobility of individuals -- How groups exhange, test, select, and distribute their members (vertical mobility) -- Two modes of the maintenance of groups -- Fluctuation of the size and stratified profile of the groups -- Changes in social relationships -- Fluctuations of government regimentation, forms of government, and freedom -- Fluctuation of orderly and disorderly change of groups -- Fluctuation of peace and war in intergroup relationships -- The cause and factors of war and revolution -- Life-span, mortality, and resurrection of groups -- PART SEVEN: THE DYNAMICS OF CULTURAL PROCESSES: The conception of cultural systems -- How ideological systems are objectified -- Socialization of objectified systems and congeries: mobility of cultural phenomena -- Socialization of objectified systems and congeries (continued) -- How cultural systems and subsystems grow and decline -- Growth, fluctuation, and decline of main forms of fine arts -- Growth, fluctuation, and decline of main systems of truth, cognition, and knowledge -- Growth, fluctuation, and decline of main systems of law, ethics, and types of personality -- Modes of change of systems, "civilizations" and congeries -- Time-sequence uniformities in the change of systems -- Direction, rhythm, periodicity, and tempo in sociocultural change -- Reasons for sociocultural change and variably recurrent processes and rhythms -- The life span, death, and resurrection of cultural systems -- Dynamics of personality. |
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