This chapter examines the power of social evolution paradigm (SEP) by presenting empirical inquiries in which SEP was properly applied. It deals with Norbert Elias’s masterpiece The Civilizing Process. The chapter shows that the power of Elias’s theoretical narrative of the making of the modern European states and the “civilized” European population is foremost underpinned by his masterful deploying of SEP, although he did not state what social evolution is or what SEP is. Elias’s theory of sociogenesis and psychogenesis, which explains the rise of the modern European state at the macro level and the making of the “civilized” European population at the micro level in post-medieval Europe, is arguably the most social evolutionary theorizing in sociology. If there is only one common concern within the three major subfields of social sciences i.e., economics, political science, and sociology, it has to be institutional change and the effect of institutions upon human welfare.