This article examines the legacy of Pitirim A. Sorokin (1889–1968), a Harvard sociologist from the Russian emigration. The authors scrutinise Sorokin as one of the nodal points for today’s moral conservatism. As a scholar, Sorokin has been relegated to the margins of his discipline, but his legacy as a public intellectual has persisted in the United States and has soared in Russia over the last three decades. This article examines Sorokin’s reception in these two nations, some of whose citizens have facilitated the burgeoning transnational phenomenon of twenty-first-century moral conservatism. Four aspects of Sorokin’s legacy are especially relevant in this context: his emphasis on values, his notion of the ‘sensate culture’, his ideas about the family, and his vision for moral revival. The authors conclude that Sorokin functions as a nodal point that binds together individual actors and ideas across national, cultural and linguistic barriers. The article is based on a firsthand analysis of moral conservative discourse and documents, on qualitative interviews and on scholarly literature.

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Pitirim Sorokin 在道德保守派跨国联盟中的遗产

本文考察了来自俄罗斯移民的哈佛社会学家 Pitirim A. Sorokin (1889–1968) 的遗产。作者将索罗金视为当今道德保守主义的节点之一。作为一名学者，索罗金已被贬低到他学科的边缘，但他作为公共知识分子的遗产在过去的三年里一直在美国持续存在，并在俄罗斯飙升。本文考察了索罗金在这两个国家的接受情况，其中一些公民促进了 21 世纪道德保守主义的新兴跨国现象。在这种情况下，索罗金的遗产有四个方面特别相关：他对价值观的强调、他对“感性文化”的概念、他对家庭的看法以及他对道德复兴的看法。作者得出的结论是，索罗金作为一个节点，将跨越国家、文化和语言障碍的个体行为者和思想联系在一起。本文基于对道德保守主义话语和文件、定性访谈和学术文献的第一手分析。