How individuals, organizations, and societies evolve through distinct stages of evolution marked by periods of revolution.

The Social Meta-Theory is a guideline for understanding human evolutionary growth as an individual, group, organization, country and the world.  It leverages numerous existing social sciences with their own generally accepted theories to help describe the stages of evolution.  Crisis emerges as the rules holding together the group no longer satisfy an emerging new truth.  Many social sciences do not currently have an evolutionary component to describe how to evolve.  For these sciences, a derived understanding of the stages of development is provided given knowledge of the other sciences that do fit in this model.  This book contains the simplified descriptions of the various theories for reference and context.  The book is available on Amazon.

The intention is to provide a view into the theory from whatever discipline the reader has mastered prior to reading this document. For the Psychology oriented reader, the sciences of Economics and Politics should read as easily as their trained science. Similar terminology is used across the scientific discipline summaries provided to aid in understanding. This book is not the end resource for any of the sciences including those that are here represented for the first time. It is incumbent upon the reader to study other books referenced in this book to get a fuller understanding of the original theories.

This theory is not intended to become a call to action against any society. It is intended as a framework for the analytical description of a society, and what would be necessary to assist in the continued evolution based on that analysis. The call to action, if one is necessary at all, will be generally pointed at a particular growth opportunity for a given culture, not pointed at the destruction of a given society. The argument is that to evolve a society, address the weakest segment of that society, and all of a given culture will then have the ability to evolve. Numerous theorists’ theories provide architecture, not to defend or refute any given theory. For instance, Freud’s Theory of psychosexual development is provided for its evolutionary stages and descriptions, not to conjure up debate as to the validity of the pseudo science used to substantiate this theory. The framework provided by Freud has explanatory power only in the gross understanding of his theory (it has been read and studied the world over), and the architecture of his theory, the growth patterns, and the identified evolutionary and revolutionary segments. Additionally, Marxian theory is provided to explain much of the evolution of an economy and political system, without trying to get into the baggage associated with the improper and forceful implementation of his theories (a.k.a. the Soviet Union). It is my hope that I can prevent another Lenin/Stalin revolution from arising by properly explaining a larger picture. This theory helps to identify exactly why the Totalitarian political system (Stage 1) connected to a Communist economic system (Stage 5) simply cannot work because it is unhealthy.

Social Meta Theory Overview

  This is a Meta theory. Don’t get bogged down in the details of the implementation. The framework is provided for discussing the evolution of societies while leveraging the strength and research of contemporary reigning theories. Many of the theories provided have 5 distinct stages. Some are not neatly broken down into 5 distinct phases but can be divided into 5 based on the definition of the stages. Still other theories require relatively obvious stages to allow the model to fit. These additional stages are provided with description of how it does not contaminate the original theory, but extend it to areas not originally considered. For instance, Kiyosaki does not contemplate a dependent stage in his 4 stage theory, allowing a preceding obvious first stage to be inserted. This is a living concept that will be updated as deeper understanding and feedback are provided. This theory will escape the qualitative nature of this description and enter into the quantitative. Specific measurements should be available to identify stages of development and the state of a culture. Population growth, for example, is a leading indicator for how healthy an economy can be based on the wealth of the culture. Everything human evolves with intermittent periods of revolution. Evolution and Revolution allow for dramatic changes in how the individual behaves in the context of their environment. Humans grow from tiny sense-driven creatures to fully self-actualized intelligent individuals in a relatively short period of time. Groups of humans evolve and go through stages of evolution in the same way. Groups of people evolve on many levels, which are distinguished in the Social Sciences, Economics, Political Science, Leadership, Organizational behavior, Psychology, Sociology, Religion, etc. Evolution from one stage to another is enabled through different revolutionary mechanisms. There are 5 distinct stages of evolution that allow individuals, organizations and society to evolve. Evolution among the various stages occurs naturally within a stage, followed by a crisis, creating the revolutionary moment when the individual, organization and society change dramatically. What emerges from this revolution is a healthy individual, organization and society that can manage and thrive in the new reality.