 Since its foundation MSS has conducted research on the process of social development in an effort to develop the broad outlines and fundamental principles of a comprehensive theory applicable to all fields of human activity and all levels from the individual and organization to the national and global community.The research includes theoretical statements of the process of development and discussion of 32 major principles and 1000 corollary observations as well as applications of the theory.In the late 1990s the World Academy of Art & Science conducted several international conferences to examine the premises of the theory and published the Society's findings as an Academy publication.