Survival, growth, development, evolution are four distinct stages in which we examine the process of social change to enhance our understanding. The stage of survival is self-evident. A family that has moved into the upper middle class may struggle to maintain its status at that level. Its progress from lower to middle class is development, but its struggle to remain at the higher level is survival. Democracy in several countries that attained freedom after 1945 did not survive. When the social structure is fixed and the energy of survival is overflowing initiating growth, survival is assured.