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Pitirim A. Sorokin sees the course of history as a continuous but irregular fluctuation between two basically different kinds of culture. While explaining this stand of Sorokin, analyse whether it is appropriate to characterize such a notion of change as a cyclical theory of social change.

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  • Social Change in Modern Society

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Pitirim Alexandrovitch Sorokin (1889–1968), in the four volumes of Social and Cultural Dynamics (1937–41), surveyed 2,500 years of art, truth, ethics and law and found no progress at all — only an endless, irregular oscillation between two opposed ways of knowing reality. Whether that is properly a cycle is the question.

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  • Sorokin's stand
  • Is 'cyclical' the right label?
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