Cyclic Change
Cyclic Change
In the ancient world, the Greeks, Romans, and Chinese all thought of human life in terms of historical cycles in which there is no qualitative differance between past and present.
Some kinds of change are cyclic, but most of social scientists do not see the whole of human history in terms of cyclic change.
An exception was Pitirim Sorokin, who analyzed change in Western civilization from 600 B.C. to about 1935 A.D. Sorokin concluded that history is a cyclic variation between three "supersystems" that represent fairly homogeneous cultures.
One system is the ideational, with its central principle of God as the true reality and value.
The second system is the sensate, which affirms the sensory world as the true reality and value as the central principle.
The third system is the idealistic, which is the combination of the other two--that is, reality and values are partly sensory and partly transcendent.
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