International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations

LC control no.	no 97043242
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	ISCSC S.I.E.C.C. Internationale Gesellschaft für Vergleichende Kulturforschung Mezhdunarodnoe obhshchestvo po sravnitelʹnomu izuchenii︠u︡ t︠s︡ivilizat︠s︡iĭ
Beginning date	1961
Found in	ISCSC newsletter caption (Published for the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, ) The problems of civilizations, 1964: title page (Report of the First Synopsis Conference of the S.I.E.C.C., Salzburg, 8-15 October 1961) page opposite title page (International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations) page 39 (Internationalen Gesellschaft für Vergleichende Kulturforschung) Globalizat︠s︡ii︠a︡ i sudʹba t︠s︡vilizat︠s︡iĭ, 2003: t.p. (Mezhdunarodnoe obhshchestvo po sravnitelʹnomu izuchenii︠u︡ t︠s︡ivilizat︠s︡iĭ) ISCSC, via WWW, March 14, 2013 (International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations (ISCSC); formally established in 1961 at a meeting in Salzburg, organized by historian Othmar Anderle and attended by fellow historians Arnold J.Toynbee and Rushton Coulborn; sociologist Pitirim Sorokin was the Society's first president; the ISCSC relocated its headquarters to the United States in 1970; the ISCSC is committed to the notion that complex, civilizational problems need diverse, multidisciplinary analyses; initially the members of the Society came from history, anthropology, and sociology; now, the Society includes such disciplines as philosophy, psychology, comparative religions, economics, political theory, literary criticism and textual analysis, art history, comparative government, comparative literature, science and technology, linguistics, archaeology, architecture, geography, biology, physics and ethnohistory; the Society is affiliated with comparative studies programs worldwide and actively fosters internationalism through its annual meetings and its publications) #u http://www.wmich.edu/iscsc/about.html