Includes bibliographical references.

Preface / E.A. Tiryakian -- Lessons from Sorokin / A.K. Davis -- Some problems for a unified theory of human nature / M.J. Levy, Jr -- Christianity and modern industrial society / T. Parsons -- Sociological dilemmas : five paradoxes of institutionalization / T.F. O'Dea -- Sociological ambivalence / R.K. Merton and E. Barber -- Is American business becoming professionalized? Analysis of a social ideology / B. Barber -- Conditions for the realization of values remote in time / W. Firey -- The temporal structure of organizations / W.E. Moore -- Social structure and the multiplicity of times / G. Gurvitch -- Social change and social systems / C.P. Loomis -- Some reflections on the nature of cultural integration and change / F.R. Kluckhohn -- Convergence of the major human family systems during the space age / C.C. Zimmerman -- Don Luigi Sturzo's sociological theory / N.S. Timasheff -- Disjunctive processes in an academic milieu / L. Wilson -- Bibliography of Pitirim A. Sorokin (p. 295-302).