Sorokins magnum opus is regarded by many to be Social and Cultural Dynamics.
 He classifies societies according to their 'cultural mentality'. This 
can be "ideational" (reality is spiritual and immaterial), "sensate" 
(truth is material and all things are in flux), or "idealistic" (a 
synthesis of the two).[10]
He suggested that significant civilizations evolve from a 
conceptual to an idealistic, and eventually to a sensate mentality. Each
 of these phases of cultural development not only seeks to describe the 
nature of reality, but also stipulates the nature of human needs and 
goals to be satisfied, the extent to which they should be satisfied, and
 the methods of satisfaction. Sorokin has interpreted the contemporary 
Western civilization as a sensate civilization, dedicated to 
technological progress and prophesied its fall into decadence and the emergence of a new ideational or idealistic era. In Fads and Foibles, he criticizes Lewis Terman's Genetic Studies of Genius research, showing that his selected group of children with high IQs did about as well as a random group of children selected from similar family backgrounds would have done

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