Pitirim Sorokin

Pitirim A. Sorokin (1889-1968) immigrated from Russia to the United States in 1923 where he founded the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. Like C. W. Mills, he was a vocal opponent of Talcott Parsons' theories.

References

• Cuzzort, R. P. and King, E. W. (1995). Twentieth-Century social thought (5th ed.). New York, NY: Harcourt Brace College Publishers.
• Mills, C. W. (2000). The sociological imagination. New York, NY: The Oxford University Press
• Sorokin, P. A. (1970). Social and Cultural Dynamics. Boston, MA: Porter Sargent Publishers.
• Sorokin, P. A. (1992). The crisis of our age. Chatam, NY: Oneworld Publications, Ltd
• Sorokin, P. A. and Lunden, W. A. (1959). Power and morality: who shall guard the guardians? Boston, MA: Porter Sargent Publishers.