Neil Howe: Where did Steve Bannon get his worldview? From my book.

[Mikebert]

(02-27-2017, 06:46 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Sorokin ... identified a cycle of 80 to 100 years that ping-pongs between spiritual and materialistic mindsets, roughly corresponding to the awakening and crisis turnings. For Howe and Strauss, the second and fourth turnings - spiritual awakening and secular crisis - form the key moments in the larger cycle of cultural trends.

Did you read Sorokin's massive work?  I've used his method for measuring sociopolitical instability in my first paper, but never engaged with his thesis.