CELEBRATING LEGACY OF A TITAN: IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN AND CREATION OF THE WORLD-SYSTEMS THEORY

The paper is a salute to a preeminent social scholar of our times – Immanuel M. Wallerstein (1930–2019). It briefly highlights his biography, education, and academic career, however, it is mainly concerned with his scholarly concepts and theories. The author attempts to follow the process of development of one of…

Civilizational theory in Russia – past, present, and future

Russia may be justifiably proud of an illustrious, albeit uneasy, history of achievements in civilizational theory and thought. The names of Nikolai Danilevsky, Konstantin Leontiev, Pitirim Sorokin, Nikolai Berdyaev, Lev Mechnikov, Nikolai Kondratiev, Lev Gumilev, Boris Yerasov, Nikita Moiseev, Yuri Yakovets, and many others are well known to civilizational scholars…

Phenomenon of civilization: Pitirim A. Sorokin’s Integralist approach and its limitations

During his remarkable academic career Pitirim A. Sorokin published about forty books and some five-hundred articles and essays addressing the subject of civilizations in some of his most important works. Due to the rapid globalization and related profound and multifaceted transformation of the world, interest to the macro-level sociocultural entities…

From Brinton To Goldstone: A Scientific Civilizational Perspective On The Theory Of Revolution

In order to adequately investigate the complex and volatile phenomenon of revolution, we ought to place it within a relevant scientific field of knowledge. The theoretical and methodological foundations of such a field, named Civilizational Science, have been developed by Vlad Alalykin-Izvekov (Alalykin-Izvekov, 2011). The analysis of the phenomenon of…

Pestilence and Other Calamities in Civilizational Theory: Sorokin, McNeill, Diamond, and Beyond

Pestilence and Other Calamities in Civilizational Theory: Sorokin, McNeill, Diamond, and Beyond Vlad Alalykin-IzvekovFollow Keywords calamity, “civilized diseases, ” disease vector, endemic, epidemic, great sociocultural systems, great socioeconomic systems, infectious diseases, outbreak, pandemic, plague, pestilence, revolution, social change, zoonotic diseases Abstract This paper analyses the phenomenon of pestilence through paradigmatic…

Chiming the Hours of History: The Historiosophy of Pitirim A. Sorokin As a Spring of His Integralistic Sociocultural Paradigm

The purpose here is to present an original rethinking of the genesis, evolution, essence, role, place, and significance of the philosophical and historical views of the great Russian and American philosopher, sociologist and educator Pitirim A. Sorokin. In addition, an attempt will be made to determine their place and role…