Rather than viewing social change as unfailingly progressive and linear, ______ assert that change should be understood as a cycle of growth and decline, much like what is experienced by a living organism.
A. rise-and-fall theories of social change
B. evolutionary models of social change
C. stage models of social change
D. structural functionalist models of social change
Answer: A
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