Pitirim Sorokin Quote

The organism of the Western society and culture seems to be undergoing one of the deepest and most significant crises of its life. The crisis is far greater than the ordinary; its depth is unfathomable, its end not yet in sight, and the whole of the Western society is involved in it. It is the crisis of a Sensate culture, now in its overripe stage, the culture that has dominated the Western World during the last five centuries. It is also the crisis of a contractual (capitalistic) society associated with it. In this sense we are experiencing one of the sharpest turns in the historical road.

Sorokin (1957) Social and Cultural Dynamics, p. 622; as cited in: "Culture in Crisis: The Visionary Theories of Pitirim Sorokin." Satyagraha – Cultural Psychology, Aug. 19, 2010