ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a bridge from natural science to social action by focusing primarily on the intervening requirements of a new social science. It discusses the realities of social breakdown and potential chaos in this late 20th century world, which present the need for new action-oriented social theory. The chapter explores the "breakthrough" nature of "chaos" theory in natural science and explains the originating vision of social science as a tool for social problem-solving. It analyses the gap between social science’s formative hopes and contemporary performance and describes the roots in modern social science of a social equivalent to natural scientific “chaos” theory and examines examples of social "chaos"/"transformational" theoretical works and works in progress. R. Eisler's study of cultural evolution examines stability as well as oscillational and transformational change. The nature and function of the human mind within evolution has been further explored through the development of other tests and methods.
