This is a collection of materials to the biography of Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (1899-1968), a famous American sociologist of Russian origin, who was expelled from Russia in 1922, along with other scholars and writers. The current book includes a new translation of chapters from Sorokin's book "Society, culture and personality" and his correspondence with R.K. Mertonom. Other articles and essays tell little known facts about Sorokin and his scholarly works. (0.235 kg.). Also avaiable : Sorokin, Pitirim. Dal'niaia Doroga: Autobiografiia (1992); Sorokin, P.A. O Russkoi Obshchestvennoi Mysli (2000)