The Fourth Social Change Wave: Mastery or Misery?

Raymond L. Forbes Jr.

doi:https://doi.org/10.14445/23942703/IJHSS-V2I4P101

Research Article | Open Access

Volume 2 | Issue 4 | Year 2015 | Article Id. IJHSS-V2I4P101 | DOI : https://doi.org/10.14445/23942703/IJHSS-V2I4P101

The Fourth Social Change Wave: Mastery or Misery?

Raymond L. Forbes Jr.

Citation :

Raymond L. Forbes Jr., "The Fourth Social Change Wave: Mastery or Misery?," International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 1-5, 2015. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23942703/IJHSS-V2I4P101

Abstract

One of the great values of social science has been its ability to identify and interpret useful themes and patterns that have shaped historical human behavior. In particular, understanding broad patterns of strategic social and technological change offers the opportunity to gain valuable insight into the present and provide potentially practical guidance for the future. This paper advances the concept of social waves of change, originally presented by futurist Alvin Toffler, as a frame work to think about what is now and what might be coming. It also provides several visions for a changed world, explores what it all might mean, offers beneficial lessons learned thus far, discusses what could really matter, and proposes some summary conclusions.

Keywords

Fourth Wave, Social Change, Futurism. Present Shock, Conceptual Age

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