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query on Sorokin
Hartmut Krech (kr538@ZFN.UNI-BREMEN.DE)
Thu, 10 Oct 1996 19:52:16 +0200
In his "The Crisis of Our Age. The Social and Cultural Outlook"
(New York/NY: E.P. Dutton, 1941), Pitirim A. Sorokin investigates
"967 important wars in the history of Greece, Rome, and the Western
countries from 500 B.C. to A.D. 1925", concluding that "war increases,
with a slight lag, precisely in periods of transition from one form of
society and culture to another" (1941,215).
"The extraordinary scale and depth of the contemporary social and cultural
crisis are reflected by the equally extraordinary belligerency of the
present century. [...] the twentieth century will unquestionably prove to
be the bloodiest and most belligerent of all the twenty-five centuries
under consideration." (Sorokin 1941,216)
Kind regards
Dr. Hartmut Krech Postfach 1430
D-27734 Delmenhorst Ph/Fx +49-4221-538 36
Germany Email kr538@zfn.uni-bremen.de
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