The book extensively deals with human history, civilization, and the emergence and downfall of human history and culture. It laid out six social systems human beings experienced from prehistoric to the current industrial social system. It describes how human beings, using their knowledge and intellect, modify and develop each social system from the hunting stage through the food-growing stage to the current industrial civilization. It also discusses the features of the three subsystems of all social systems: economic, socio-political, and cultural, and points out the major challenges of the present system. Reading the book will be greatly useful for academia and researchers who are engaged in examining and dealing with the trend of social change and are concerned about the future of civilization.

1. Social systems ? Civilization.