Social cycle theory
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Social cycle theories are one of the earliest social theories in sociology. Unlike the theory of social evolutionism, which views the evolution of society and human history as progressing in some new, unique direction(s), sociological cycle theory argues that events and stages of society and history are generally repeating themselves in cycles. Such a theory does not necessarily imply there cannot be any social progress. In the early theory of Ssu-Ma Ch'ien, more recent theories of long-term ("secular") political-demographic cycles (e.g., Korotayev, Malkov, Khaltourina 2006 and the Varnic theory of P.R. Sarkar an explicit accounting is made of social progress.
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