This work endeavours to bring out the scientific aspect of social science. That, this is not as easily done in the social sciences as in the physical sciences, is in itself a rationale behind the need for a novel approach to this subject. The author, who has been a management systems specialist by profession for over forty years, believes that, just as in the words of John Masefield, the poet Laureate, historical change is more than merely 'one damn thing after ...