Transmission and Exchange: The Sequential Nature of Social Order (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781971928623)

Transmission and Exchange: The Sequential Nature of Social Order presents a comprehensive theory of how social processes originate, propagate, stabilize, and ultimately deteriorate. Rather than treating society as a collection of institutions or individual actions, the work develops a model of sequential social order-the continuous movement of social material through transmission, retention, exchange, and propagation.

Beginning with the conditions that make social transmission possible, the book examines how information, behavior, and social structures are retained, exchanged, and propagated across individuals and infrastructures. It introduces concepts such as hierarchical retention, randomized propagation, social sequence, and infrastructural convergence to explain why some ideas and systems achieve enduring continuity while others fragment or disappear.

Building upon this foundation, the work investigates the mechanisms through which social systems become unstable. It analyzes corrupted social nuclei, infrastructural failure, mobility breakdown, and the gradual dissolution of sequential order, demonstrating how systemic dysfunction emerges from disruptions in transmission rather than from isolated events alone.

The later sections turn toward the individual and the reconstruction of order, exploring individual participation, privatization, representational systems, and the relationship between biological, psychological, and social organization. Throughout, the theory is applied across institutions, communication, infrastructure, and warfare, illustrating how a single sequential framework can account for diverse forms of social organization.

Bridging sociology, philosophy, systems theory, and social psychology, Transmission and Exchange offers an original conceptual framework for understanding how societies maintain continuity, how they fail, and how sequential order may be restored.