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Zenodo
2026
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19969365 |
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- <p>This volume presents the first unified structural theory of civilization, extending the Structural Linguistic Theory into the domain of large-scale social, political, cognitive, and technological systems. Unlike conventional civilization studies, which remain fragmented across history, anthropology, economics, political science, and international relations, this work provides a single structural vocabulary capable of describing all major civilizational subsystems.</p> <p>The theory is grounded in the author’s intrinsic structural cognition, which interprets phenomena through the abstract elements of balance, tension, hierarchy, constraint, and recursivity. These elements are formalized into the core structural variables of the theory—<strong>Structural Capacity (SC), Convergence/Divergence, Tension, Hierarchy, and Recursivity</strong>—allowing heterogeneous domains to be analyzed within a unified conceptual framework.</p> <p>Volume 3 develops a comprehensive model of civilization dynamics, in which economic structures, state structures, cognitive structures, and technological structures interact recursively. Civilizational change is expressed through structural equations that describe the direction of convergence/divergence, fluctuations in SC, and the accumulation of tension. Phase transitions—such as collapse, transformation, or reorganization—are defined as structural threshold events rather than historical accidents.</p> <p>By integrating structural linguistics, complex systems theory, and civilizational analysis, this volume establishes a new theoretical foundation for understanding long-term societal evolution. It offers a structural language through which the future of civilization can be interpreted as a function of its underlying dynamics.</p>