Social and Cultural Dynamics: Revisiting the Work of Pitirim A. Sorokin

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Abstract

Intro -- Series Editors Preface -- Interdisciplinarity in the Social Sciences Under Observation: Dissecting the Thought of Pitirim A. Sorokin -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Prologue: The Reasons for a Choice -- 1 The Reasons for a Choice -- 2 Sorokin's Russian Period -- 3 Sorokin's American Period -- 4 A Journey with Sorokin -- References -- Chapter 2: The Boundaries of Sociology and Its Relation to Other Sciences -- 1 Sociology and Its Development as a Science -- 1.1 The Evolutionary Stages of Sociology -- 1.2 The Debate on Sociological Knowledge -- 2 Object and Boundaries of Sociology -- 3 The Interplay Between Sociology and Other Sciences -- 3.1 The Interplay Between Sociology and Psychology in the American Debate of the Last Century -- 3.2 Modes of Interplay Between Sociology and Psychology -- 4 Towards a New Scientific Awareness: Transdisciplinarity -- References -- Chapter 3: Integral Theory of Knowledge -- 1 The Dyad Knowledge/Reality -- 2 Sorokin's Sociology of Knowledge -- 3 The Integralism or Integral Theory of Sociology -- 3.1 The Systems of Truth -- References -- Chapter 4: The Society and Its Paradoxes -- 1 Social Universe and Interactions -- 2 The Construction of Reality and the Interactions (Social Relations) -- 3 The Paradoxes of Contemporary Society -- References -- Chapter 5: The Cultural System and the Social Problems -- 1 The Cultural Universe -- 2 Mentality of Culture (or Culture Mentality) -- 3 The Superorganic (or Cultural) Phenomenon as a Social Problem -- References -- Chapter 6: Personality and Human Conduct -- 1 The Personality as Weltanschauung -- 1.1 Identity in Contemporary Society -- 2 Human Conduct and Uncertainty -- 3 Human Conduct, Trust, and Risk -- References -- Chapter 7: From Creative Altruistic Love to the Ethics of Responsibility