In this episode I’m joined by Larry Nichols, retired Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University and longtime editor of The American Sociologistto discusses his new book: Reintroducing Pitirim A. Sorokin: Integral, Loving, Global Sociology.

We discuss Sorokin’s rough past as a Russian peasant and survivor of Bolshevism, his ideas about comparative sociology and cycles of history, relationships with Merton and Parsons, critiques of American society and American sociology, and vision for an integral sociology of love.

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