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

do research work at George Washington University; Sorokin's support
of Prof. C.C. Zimmerman's application for a Fulbright Fellowship to
study the "Cultural conditions under which peasants em'igrate to
America and under which returned emigrants readjust in Italy";
Sorokin's support of C.N. Zimmerman's application for admission to
Bucknell University to pursue graduate work in sociology.
ERY COMPANY. [February, 1953-March, 1966. 11 6 i terns] Correspond-
ence re: a request for Sorokin to write a book about folklore in
sociology; Sorokin's willingness to write such a book if certain
conditions are met; Sorokin's request for Regnery to publish his
manuscript on Factors and techniques of altruistic and spiritual
growth; Regnery's inability to publish Factors and techniques
because of 1 arge production costs i t woul d entai 1 ; a possi bi 1 i ty
of publ ication of Folklore in sociology by Routledge and Kegan Paul
Ltd. ; a cl ipping from Time magazine (April 7, 1952) which bears on
certain techniques used by sociological field workers to develop a
set of 'facts'; Sorokin's research for the book on folklore; a
request for Sorokin's statement about R. Kirk's The conservative
mind; Sorokin's completion of Folklore in modern sociology; Sorokin's
manuscript entitled Fads and foibles in modern sociology and the
related sciences submitted to Regnery Publishing Company; problems
associated with the publ ication of Sorokin's Fads and foibles in
modern sociolo ; the editing of Fads and foibles; Sorokin's offer
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of 1500.00 to help cover publishing and advertising costs of Fads
and foibles; Sorokin's correction of the proofs of Fads and foibles;
the publication and distribution of Fads and foibles; a request.for
Sorokin's opinion of Prof. A.H. Hobbs of the University of Pennsyl-
vania; Sorokin's favourable opinion about Prof. A.H. Hobbs; Sorokin's
request for a copy of R. Kirk's Academic freedom; a request for
Sorokin's opinion of R. Kirk's Academic freedom; a few excerpts
from the letters of the eminent readers of Fads and foibles;
Spanish rights on Fads and foibles granted to the Aguilar Company
of Madrid; slow sales of Fads and foibles; the cost of advertisement
of Fads and foibles in the American journal of sociology and the
American sociological review; a request for Sorokin to write a book
about the col lapse of the academic profession; Sorokin's wi 11 inqness
to submit a volume about the integral system of re1 igion, philo;ophy,
sociology, psychology, and the way of 1 i fe; Sorokin's request to
send a copy of the London times review of Fads and foibles to all
professors of sociology; publ ication of Sorokin's The American sex
- rev01 ution; a request for Soroki n' s opi nit Dn of C.C. Zimmerman and
L .F. Cervantes' Marriage and the family; submission of Sorokin's and
~unden's manuscript The criminal i ty of the rul ing groups for publ ication;
Dr. Wattmann's interest in a German translation of Fads and
foibles; publication of a French edition of Fads and foibles; Sorokin's
inquiry as to the republishing of Sorokin's Social and cultural
mobility; publication of an Italian edition of Fads and foibles; the
reissue of Dynamics, society, culture and personality, Social
mobility and Social philosophies of an age of crisis; Sorokin's request
to have his The reconstruction of humanity and The ways and