Social Science Files
The science of society, the evolution of society, and the governance of society.
Who am I?
Dr Michael G. Heller is a former academic, now free and independent scholar, who has lived and worked in 7 diverse societies. His home bases are Australia and the UK. On Substack he explores societies comparatively, historically, and futuristically across the disciplines of sociology, economics, politics, anthropology, archeology, geography, psychology, and law. Slowly but surely he is preparing a Theory & History of Society.
What is my project?
My long run objective is a comprehensive typological classification of all societies from the beginning of human time through to European seventeenth and eighteenth century modernities. Most of my draft ideas can be found filed away in The Archive.
Social Science Files launched in 2022 to exhibit my research for a New Theory of the Evolution of Society.
Now, Social Science Files explains my perspective on the sequence of preconditions and motivations that produced and maintained societies as workable unities over the course of history.
In mid-2025 Social Science Files has 13,000 Substack Followers.
The 2,400 direct Email Subscribers to Social Science Files include 300+ top scholars.
How has it evolved?
It began in 2017 as a study of seventeenth century English governance, but expanded!
‘The new 2023 Social Science Files Project’ March 14, 2023
‘Social Science Proposal’ April 19, 2023
‘Social Science of Prehistory: a new approach’ September 14, 2024
‘Roadmap: Ten types of society, updated, annotated’ September 16, 2024
March 16, 2025 why ‘Type 6 Externalised centre over periphery’ has been discarded.
What next 2025-2027?
In March 2025 I commenced a focused chronological tableau of the emergence of society and the forms it took during 200,000 years of evolution. I examine it here piece-by-piece and innovation-by-innovation in a collection of micropublications.
Tableau No. 2/Composition No. VII by Piet Mondrian, 1913
PREVIOUSLY ON FRONT PAGE:
the ‘PLOP’ section
the ‘LIGHT’ section
These continue but very sporadically now that I am writing full-time.
‘The Heller Files’, quality tools for Social Science since 2022.
Social Science Files displays multidisciplinary writings on a variety of topics relating to evolutions of social order from earliest humans to the present day and future machine age.
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You can CONTACT ME by replying to the emails, or write to HellerFiles@gmail.com
