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In part 1 of this article a new metahistorical approach called sociohistory was created. Its aim is to explore the possibilities of tracking and explaining social change. Here, in part 2 of the article, EPI is placed in a form that enables it to be directly applied to subject societies. An example is an application to the sociohistory of post-colonial Iran, that some would say presages the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new yin-yang metahistorical approach that we call sociohistory is created to explore the possibilities of tracking and explaining social change. For this purpose, a frame of reference is created using Social Viable Systems theory to harness Sorokin's sociocultural dynamics. Epistemological content is enhanced by Frieden's new constructivist information theory called Extreme Physical Information. Its aim is to provide a scientific framework for the metahistory. The coupling of these theories has the potential for explaining and possibly predicting long-term, large-scale or short-term, small-scale sociocultural events. This new theory should be seen as emerging from the convergence of the approaches by Sorokin, Yolles and Frieden. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]