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The article considers the ideas of the first wave of Russian symbolism in 1890s-1900s in the context of P. Sorokin's historical-cultural typology. The analysis of the first symbolism manifests by D. S. Merezhkovsky, V. Y. Bryusov, K. D. Balmont witnesses to the growing crisis tendencies in art and culture between the two centuries; this fact is considered by P. Sorokin as a consequence of the major changes within the framework of transformation of the sensitive historical-cultural type. The author shows the tendency of the Russian symbolism, as a form of modernist style, to overcome the crisis situation through actualization of the values of idealistic culture with its typical synthesis of sensitivity and supersensitivity.

P. A. Sorokin's work is conveniently classified into 6 categories: autobiographical items, 'conventional' sociol'al works, cultural studies, critiques of theory & methods, popular essays, considerations of love & altruism. The centrally important category is that of cultural analysis, under which Sorokin's major work on SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DYNAMICS (see SA 4402) falls. The meaning of sensate, ideational & idealistic forms is reviewed & Sorokin's too easy tendency to take culture style-discrepancies as evidence of basic cultural divergence is criticized. Sorokin on culture is then compared with his contemporaries, Alfred L. Kroeber & Talcott Parsons. Kroeber was more reliable. Parsons is a tidier theorist, who has developed a more impressive conceptualization of the relations of cultural & soc dimensions. Sorokin's work remains worth while, his DYNAMICS particularly so. AA.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: A Life Remembered -- 1. Sorokin's Life and Work -- 2. Sorokin Remembered -- 3. The Sorokin-Merton Correspondence on "Puritanism, Pietism, and Science," 1933-34 -- Part II: Sorokin as Gadfly -- 4. Snakes and Ladders: Parsons and Sorokin at Harvard -- 5. Sorokin and American Sociology: The Dynamics of a Moral Career in Science -- 6. Sorokin's Challenge to Modernity -- Part III: Sorokin's Methodology -- 7. Sorokin's Methodology: Integralism as the Key -- 8. Sorokin as Dialectician -- 9. Sorokin's Concept of Immanent Change -- 10. Civilizational Worldview as an Aggregate of Intuitions -- Part IV: Applying Sorokin's Theories -- 11. Sorokin versus Toynbee on Civilization -- 12. Applying Sorokin's Typology -- 13. An Empirical Assessment of Sorokin's Theory of Change -- 14. A Study of Generational Fluctuations in Philosophical Beliefs -- 15. Sorokin's Vision of Altruistic Love as a Bridge to Human Consensus -- 16. Transitions, Revolutions, and Wars -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index