1. Evolution of Civilizations

This chapter explains how human societies have developed over time; and how the movement from one civilization to another has caused each society to go through a difficult transitional period. Every time, a new society with a different culture and a new economy has emerged, causing the history of the previous civilization and its historical logic to end. In addition, the chapter develops the “societal processes of change,” the sociocultural, political, economic and infomedia processes, as tools with which to analyze past, present and future change and transformation. As these processes have become mechanisms through which societal change is introduced and managed, they have caused the roles of all other players to diminish.