ABSTRACT
This book has presented a general social theory that has explained social and cultural ontology and, by association, economic ontology. The theory posits that society, culture and economy emerge from the continual social transaction of interdependent agents. That social transaction contains both transaction and negotiation. The book then examines two significant studies: the Stanford Prison experiment and the BBC prison experiment. It hopes that social theory can awaken in the world a greater awareness of how we experience our everyday lives, our societies and our transaction with the world around us. The book also provides greater understanding of our human family. Finally, the book hopes that this theory will draw the world closer by highlighting our commonalities rather than our differences, by promoting the universal elements of our humanity that generate society and culture rather than the dissimilarities that emerge from those elements.
