Social And Cultural Dynamics: A Study Of Change In Major Systems Of Art, Truth, Ethics, Law, And Social Relationships
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One of the most ambitious intellectual achievements of the twentieth century, Social and Cultural Dynamics presents a sweeping, systematic analysis of how human civilizations rise, transform, and decline across millennia of recorded history. Pitirim Sorokin, one of sociology's most formidable theorists, argues that all great cultures oscillate between two fundamental poles — the Ideational, rooted in spiritual and transcendent values, and the Sensate, grounded in material reality and empirical experience — with hybrid Idealistic forms emerging at their peaks. Drawing on vast empirical data spanning art, philosophy, science, law, and social relationships, he constructs a grand unified theory of cultural change that challenges linear notions of progress and forces a reckoning with the cyclical nature of civilizational life. This revised and abridged single-volume edition, introduced by Michel P. Richard, makes Sorokin's monumental four-volume work accessible to a new generation of readers without sacrificing its intellectual depth or analytical rigor. Sorokin writes with the conviction of a scholar who lived through revolution, exile, and war, and his prose carries the moral urgency of a thinker who believed sociology must grapple with the deepest questions of human existence. Whether one agrees with his grand historical schema or not, Social and Cultural Dynamics remains an indispensable provocation — a work that dares to ask not merely how societies change, but whether Western civilization itself stands at a cultural crossroads.
Author: Pitirim Sorokin
Format: Paperback
Genre: Society & culture
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
One of the most ambitious intellectual achievements of the twentieth century, Social and Cultural Dynamics presents a sweeping, systematic analysis of how human civilizations rise, transform, and decline across millennia of recorded history. Pitirim Sorokin, one of sociology's most formidable theorists, argues that all great cultures oscillate between two fundamental poles — the Ideational, rooted in spiritual and transcendent values, and the Sensate, grounded in material reality and empirical experience — with hybrid Idealistic forms emerging at their peaks. Drawing on vast empirical data spanning art, philosophy, science, law, and social relationships, he constructs a grand unified theory of cultural change that challenges linear notions of progress and forces a reckoning with the cyclical nature of civilizational life. This revised and abridged single-volume edition, introduced by Michel P. Richard, makes Sorokin's monumental four-volume work accessible to a new generation of readers without sacrificing its intellectual depth or analytical rigor. Sorokin writes with the conviction of a scholar who lived through revolution, exile, and war, and his prose carries the moral urgency of a thinker who believed sociology must grapple with the deepest questions of human existence. Whether one agrees with his grand historical schema or not, Social and Cultural Dynamics remains an indispensable provocation — a work that dares to ask not merely how societies change, but whether Western civilization itself stands at a cultural crossroads.