Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
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
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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