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Pitirim Sorokin

1889 - 1968

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Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin (; Russian: Питирим Александрович Сорокин; 4 February [O.S. 23 January] 1889 – 10 February 1968) was a Russian American sociologist and political activist, who contributed to the social cycle theory. Sorokin was a professor at Saint Petersburg Imperial University, three times imprisoned by the Czarist regime for "revolutionary activity." His active opposition to the Bolsheviks led, after they were in power, to his arrest and sentence to death. Only with the help and intervention of friends, including Thomas Masaryk and Edouard Benes, was his sentence commuted to permanent exile, which led Sorokin to flee to Czechoslovakia. Moving to the United States, he became a professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota in 1924, and, in 1930, he was hired as head of the newly formed department of sociology at Harvard University. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pitirim Sorokin is the 19th most popular sociologist (down from 18th in 2019), the 282nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 242nd in 2019) and the most popular Russian Sociologist.

Pitirim Sorokin was a sociologist who was most famous for his theory of social and cultural evolution.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Pitirim Sorokin ranks 19 out of 79. Before him are Karl Mannheim, Immanuel Wallerstein, Niklas Luhmann, Gabriel Tarde, Manuel Castells, and Seymour Martin Lipset. After him are Alain Touraine, C. Wright Mills, Paul Lazarsfeld, Robert Michels, Peter L. Berger, and Saskia Sassen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Pitirim Sorokin ranks 35. Before him are Jacob L. Moreno, Victor Fleming, Vasily Blyukher, Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, Zalman Shazar, and Jean de Lattre de Tassigny. After him are Mercédès Jellinek, Sadhu Sundar Singh, Kim Tu-bong, Robert A. Taft, Abel Gance, and Taha Hussein. Among people deceased in 1968, Pitirim Sorokin ranks 29. Before him are Jim Clark, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Kees van Dongen, José Nasazzi, Neal Cassady, and Alexandre Kojève. After him are Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, Howard Florey, Ivan Ribar, Kirill Meretskov, Vasily Sokolovsky, and Alice Guy-Blaché.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Pitirim Sorokin ranks 282 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolai Vatutin (1901), Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1757), Dmitry Yazov (1924), Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia (1847), Ivan II of Moscow (1326), and Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia (1827). After him are Vasily Vereshchagin (1842), Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894), Igor Smirnov (1941), Ivan Silayev (1930), Nikolay Semyonov (1896), and Oleg Antonov (1906).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among sociologists born in Russia, Pitirim Sorokin ranks 1. After him are Georges Gurvitch (1894), and Boris Kagarlitsky (1958).

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