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Who among the following introduced the distinction of cultures into ideational and sensate categories?(2005)

P.A. Sorokin

Sigmund Freud

A.L. Kroeber

O. Spengler

- Option 1: P.A. Sorokin

- Correct Answer: Yes, Sorokin introduced the distinction between ideational and sensate culture.

- Ideational culture revolves around spiritual and abstract ideas.

- Sensate culture is focused on tangible, materialistic aspects and sensory experience.

- Sorokin's work examines how societies oscillate between these cultural forms.

- Option 2: Sigmund Freud

- He focused on psychoanalysis and the human mind.

- His theories explored unconscious drives and the influence of childhood on behavior.

- Option 3: A.L. Kroeber

- Kroeber was an anthropologist who studied cultural patterns and human civilization.

- He did not specifically categorize cultures into ideational and sensate forms.

- Option 4: O. Spengler

- Known for his work "Decline of the West."

- He analyzed the cyclical nature of civilizations but did not use the ideational and sensate categorization.