Sorokin as Lifelong Russian Intellectual: The Enactment of an Historically Rooted Sensibility

American Sociologist

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 374-405

  Nichols, Lawrence T ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextual understanding; History of sociology in the United States; Integral knowledge; Pitirim A. Sorokin; Russian history and politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871289715     PISSN: 00031232     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12108-012-9167-0     Document Type: Article

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