Phillip Bosserman Dialectical Sociology: An Analysis of the Sociology of Georges Gurvitch. Boston: Porter Sargent Publisher, 1968. Extending Horizon Books. 316 pages. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is bound in blue cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket display light shelfwear. Georges Gurvitch (1894-1965) was a Russian-born French sociologist and jurist. One of the leading sociologists of his times, he was a specialist of the sociology of knowledge. In 1944 he founded the journal Cahiers internationaux de Sociologie.