Research and overview: How do paradigms arise in society and get adopted?

[rufuspollock]

This is a key question in our core SCQH issue tree / theory of change.

Acceptance

• Key references in a zotero collection Started under 'Social paradigm shifts'
• Summary of key ideas / terms Preliminary doc started here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nAVFTN8SIEGWU6Mf-fMVN4Sjn2n2DU0tdxsld7O1cQI/edit?usp=sharing
• Identification of next steps Turn the current material into a blog post and turn this issue into a discussion with a link to what we have so far
• Initial essay / post https://lifeitself.us/2021/10/25/social-paradigm-shifts-a-pre-survey-of-the-literature/
• A discussion in the forum here (either convert this or start anew with the same question and post up context and links)

Tasks

• Key references in a zotero collection Started under 'Social paradigm shifts'
• Summary of key ideas / terms Preliminary doc started here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nAVFTN8SIEGWU6Mf-fMVN4Sjn2n2DU0tdxsld7O1cQI/edit?usp=sharing
• Identification of next steps Turn the current material into a blog post and turn this issue into a discussion with a link to what we have so far
• (Initial essay / post https://lifeitself.us/2021/10/25/social-paradigm-shifts-a-pre-survey-of-the-literature/

[rufuspollock]

@theo-cox can you drop a quick summary comment of what you have done so far and what we do next.

[theo-cox]

@rufuspollock have begun to capture some of the core fields relevant to this topic, some major themes sitting under these fields and a reading list in Zotero. From this I've also added some preliminary reflections at the top of the document. Next steps would be as follows:

1. tidy the notes a bit
2. use this to construct a research agenda/plan, including research questions and some direction around how we should focus on individual literatures and their overlaps

We may want to return to this, and indeed I think it would be highly valuable, but note that this would be a huge research project - this question would be PhD worth in any one of the fields listed, let alone synthesising all of them...