Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Pitirim Sorokin
Born: February 4, 1889
Died: February 10, 1968 (aged 79)
Bio: Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin was a Russian American sociologist born in modern-day Komi Republic of Russia. An academic and political activist in Russia, he emigrated from Russia to the United States in 1923.
Known for:
- Social and Cultural Dynamics (1937)
- The crisis of our age (1941)
- The ways and power of love (1954)
- Man and society in calamity (1942)
- Leaves from a Russian diary (1924)