Sorokin, Pitirim A. - Manuscripts and Papers - University Library ...

of social thouqht in ancient and Asian civilizations: Sorokin's wish
to have his ~~iamics, social mobility and Society, cul,ture, and
ersonality published in cheap paperback editions; a request for
(orokin to comment on Motwani's Sociological papers and essays and
J. Krishnamurti; publication of a third edition of Motwani 's Manu:
a study in social thought; Motwani's appointment to the positmf
professor of sociology at the University of Jabalpur (India); a
discussion of Motwani's pioneering work; a request for Sorokin to
criticize Motwani's syllabus for an M.A. in sociology; an invitation
for Sorokin to lecture at various universities in India; a discussion
about the low level of education and intelligence among M.A. students
of sociology in Indian universities; Sorokin's explanation of the
differences between European and American universities; a request
for Sorokin to introduce Motwani to J.K. Galbraith; Motwani 's
interest in bringing out a symposium of articles bearing on sociophilosophic
approach to sociology; publication of an Indian edition
of Sorokin's Power and morality and a Hindi edition of Sorokin's
Reconstruction of humanity; Sorokin's favourable comments about
Motwani's Sri Aurobindo on social sciences and humanities; an
invitation for Sorokin to attend the International Congress on
Peace and Disarmament; the organization and start of the Journal
of sociology; publication of new editions of Sorokin's Dynamics,
society, culture and personality, and Social philosophies of an age
of crisis; requests for reprints of Sorokin's articles; a request
for Sorokin to mention Motwani 's work in Sorokin's Recent sociological
theories; a discussion about the basic problem of Indian
Vedic thought; publication of a collection of Sorokin's articles,
The basic trends of our time; preparation of Motwani's symposium
Critique of empiricism in study of sociology; a request for a
curriculum vitae of 200-300 words and a postcard-size ~hoto~ra~h
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of Sorokin to be inserted in Motwani I s symposium; ~orokin's work
on his last volume Recent sociological theories; a copy of Motwani's
paper "Pi ti rim A. Soroki n: a tribute" ; recommendation of Sorokin
for the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for services to the promotion of
peace and good will to the Council of Indian Cultural Affairs in
the government of India; and a copy of the contents of the course
on sociology of knowledge at Wichita State University.
M-58 MO - GENERAL. [1947-1965. 47 i tems] Correspondence re: a request
for reprints of the speakers' papers at the conference "New
Knowledge in Human Values" ; a request for Sorokin to write a
more analysing preface to Dr. Sarkiayanz's Russian ideologies
and the messianism of the Orient; an invitation for Sorokin to
attend the First International Congress of Peace; some favourabl e
comments about Sorokin's The reconstruction of humanity; application
for membership in the International Association for a Study and
Application of Altruism; reprints of R. Mooney's papers about
graduate education and art and artists; an invitation for Sorokin
to be the speaker at the Conference on Psychiatry and Problems of
Old Age; request for a copy of Sorokin's "Similarities and dis-
simi 1 ari ties between two sociological systems" and Estructura