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Cloth, 720 pages, 1957
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Social and Cultural
Dynamics, Pitirim A. Sorokin
Table of Contents
PART ONE: INTRODUCTORY
1. Forms and Problems of Cultural Integration and Methods of Their Study
2. Ideational, Sensate, Idealistic, and Mixed Systems of Culture
3. Concrete Illustrations of the Chief Types of Culture Mentality
4. Sociocultural Fluctuations: Concept and Forms of Sociocultural Process
PART TWO: FLUCTUATION OF IDEATIONAL, IDEALISTIC, AND SENSATE FORMS OF ART
5. Is There Any Uniform Sequence in the Flourishing of Various Arts in the History of a Given Culture? Preliminary Critical Survey of Theories on the Subject
6. IS the Curve of Art Development Uniformly Similar in Various Societies and Cultures? Preliminary Critical Survey of Theories on the Subject
7. Idealistic, Sensate, and Mixed Styles in Art: Painting and Sculpture
8. Recurrence in Social Space and Fluctuations in Time of the Ideational, Visual, and Mixed Styles in Painting and Sculpture (Qualitative Outline)
9. Fluctuation of the Main Styles in the Painting and Sculpture of Western Europe
10. Fluctuation of Ideational and Visual Forms of Architecture
11. Fluctuation of Ideational and Sensate Forms of Literature and Criticism
PART THREE: FLUCTUATION OF IDEATIONAL, IDEALISTIC AND SENSATE SYSTEMS OF TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE
13. Fluctuation of Ideational, Idealistic and Sensate Systems of Truth and Knowledge
(Quantitative)
14. Qualitative Clarification of the Fluctuation of the Systems of Truth and Knowledge
15. Fluctuation of "First Principles": I. Idealism and Materialism
16. Fluctuation of "First Principles": II. Eternalistic and Temporalistic Mentality
17. Fluctuation of "First Principles": III. Influence of Realism, Conceptualism, and Nominalism
18. Fluctuation of "First Principles": IV. Influence of Sociological Universalism and Singularism
19. Fluctuation of "First Principles": V. Realistic, Nominalistic, and Mixed Conceptions of the Reality of the Juridical Personality: Corporations and Institutions
20. Fluctuation of "First Principles": VI. Influence of Deterministic and Indeterministic Mentalities
21. Fluctuation of "First Principles": VII: Linear, Cyclical, and Mixed Conceptions of the Cosmic, Biological and Sociocultural Processes
22. Fluctuation of the Basic Categories of Human Thought: Causality, Time, Space, Number
23. Fluctuation of General and Special Scientific Theories
PART FOUR: FLUCTUATION OF IDEATIONAL AND SENSATE FORMS OF ETHICAL AND JURIDICAL CULTURE MENTALITY
24. Fluctuation of Ideational, Sensate and Mixed Systems of Ethics in the
Graeco-Roman and Western Cultures
25. Fluctuation of Ethico-juridical Mentality in Criminal Law
PART FIVE: TYPES AND FLUCTUATION OF THE SYSTEMS OF SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
26. Familistic, Contractual, and Compulsory Relationships and Systems of Interaction
27. Fluctuation of the Familistic, Contractual, and Compulsory Relationships in the Life Process of the Main European Social Groups
28. Fluctuation of the Theocratic and Secular Forms of Government and Leadership
29. Fluctuation of Ideational and Sensate Liberty
30. Fluctuation of Systems of Social Relationships in Their Quantitative Aspects
31. Fluctuation of Economic Conditions
PART SIX: FLUCTUATION OF WAR IN INTERGROUP RELATIONSHIPS
32. Fluctuation of War in the History of Greece, Rome, and Europe
33. Summary and Main Results of Study of War in the History of Europe
PART SEVEN: FLUCTUATION OF INTERNAL DISTURBANCES IN INTRAGROUP RELATIONSHIPS
34. Fluctuation of Internal Disturbances in the History of Greece, Rome, and Europe
35. Summary and Main Results of Study of Internal Disturbances
PART EIGHT: CULTURE, PERSONALITY, AND CONDUCT
36. Relationship between Types of Culture and Types of Personality and Behavior
37. The Crisis of Our Age
PART NINE: WHY AND HOW OF SOCIOCULTURAL CHANGE
38. Principles of Immanent Change of Sociocultural Systems and Congeries
39. The "Why" of Sociocultural Rhythms and Swings. The Principle of Limit
40. The Problems of Ever-Linear, Ever-New and Strictly Circular Sociocultural Change
41. The Reason for the Super-Rhythm of Ideational-Idealistic Sensate Phases in the
Graeco-Roman and Western Super-systems of Culture
42. The Twilight of Our Sensate Culture and Beyond
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