A brief overview of the main provisions of the new book by Daniel Raphael, Ph.D., "Fundamentals of Social Sustainability - Designing Sustainable Societies, Democracies and Economies". Table of Contents: Hypothesis as Introduction 1. What has Sustained Our Species for over 40,000 years? 2. QUALITY OF LIFE, the Primary Value of Social Sustainability 3. GROWTH, a Secondary Value of our Species’ Sustainability 4. EQUALITY, a Secondary Value of our Species’ Sustainability 5. How Do We Measure Equality, as Quantity or Quality? 6. Can We Embed the Three Core Values in Social Structures? 7. The Moral Compass of Social Sustainability 8. Wouldn’t We Need to Examine more than Just Values? 9. A Methodology for Designing Stable Social Structures 10. Who Will Exercise this Methodology for Sustainability? 11. Who Will Train and Form Sustainability Teams? 12. Culture Change — Innovating the Structures of Society