%0 Journal Article
%T The legacy of Pitirim Sorokin in the transnational alliances of moral conservatives
%A Dmitry Uzlaner
%A Kristina Stoeckl
%J Journal of Classical Sociology
%@ 1741-2897
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1468795X17740734
%X This article examines the legacy of Pitirim A. Sorokin (1889¨C1968), a Harvard sociologist from the Russian emigration. The authors scrutinise Sorokin as one of the nodal points for today¡¯s moral conservatism. As a scholar, Sorokin has been relegated to the margins of his discipline, but his legacy as a public intellectual has persisted in the United States and has soared in Russia over the last three decades. This article examines Sorokin¡¯s reception in these two nations, some of whose citizens have facilitated the burgeoning transnational phenomenon of twenty-first-century moral conservatism. Four aspects of Sorokin¡¯s legacy are especially relevant in this context: his emphasis on values, his notion of the ¡®sensate culture¡¯, his ideas about the family, and his vision for moral revival. The authors conclude that Sorokin functions as a nodal point that binds together individual actors and ideas across national, cultural and linguistic barriers. The article is based on a firsthand analysis of moral conservative discourse and documents, on qualitative interviews and on scholarly literature
%K culture wars
%K moral conservatism
%K Pitirim Sorokin
%K Russia-US relations
%K transnational conservative alliances
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1468795X17740734