Explanation:

Let’s break this down:

- Max Weber: He focused on the role of ideas, culture, and religion in shaping societies. He’s big on rationalization and bureaucracy, not cycles.

- Pitirim Sorokin: He’s your guy for cyclical theories. Sorokin believed societies swing between different cultural types (like “ideational” vs “sensate” cultures) in recurring cycles.

- Edward B. Tylor: He’s an anthropologist known for talking about cultural evolution, but his approach is linear, not cyclical.

- Talcott Parsons: He’s all about structural-functionalism and sees social change as a process toward equilibrium, not in cycles.

So, the correct answer is Pitirim Sorokin.