"Deliberate, organized attempt by some members of a society to construct a more satisfying culture by rapid acceptance of a pattern of multiple innovations,"  i.e., political, economic, and/or religious innovations.

(Anthony F. C. Wallace 1970: 188)

1. Steady State

2. Period of Increased Personal and Societal Stress (war and conquest, oppression, climatic catastrophe, disease, internal disruption, etc.)

3. Period of Relative and/or Absolute Cultural Deprivation

4. Period of Revitalization

a. Formulate New Code (religious, political, economic, technological, etc.)

 

b. Communicate New Code

 

c. Triad Organization: Charismatic Formulator, Disciples, Converts

 

d. Adaptation, Modification, and Societal Transformation

 

e. Routinization

5. New Steady State