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Research draft

social change

vr.tr.social-change · ACT.PRC

Let an agent handle social change by domain, drivers, pace, evidence and effects, neutrally.

Thing Registry Activities and processes

Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent handle social change by domain, drivers, pace, evidence and effects, neutrally.

The alteration over time of social structures, cultural patterns, institutions and behaviour in a society, through processes such as modernisation, development, digitalisation, movements and reform.

What it is for: Understanding how societies transform.

It can be describe changes with evidence; identify drivers; measure trends; assess effects on groups.

Distinguishing features

Change in social structures and culture

Gradual or rapid

Many drivers

Uneven effects

What it looks like

Not a single appearance; seen in changing norms, institutions and statistics.

How it is recognised

Trends in social statistics

Processes such as modernisation or digitalisation

Named national modernisation programmes are instances

Related models

is a kind of - category

social process

is driven by - drivers

technology, economy, movements

is studied by - field

sociology

includes - deliberate change

reform

In practice

Families and kinds

modernisation and development

technological and digital change

demographic change

cultural and value change

institutional reform

Standards and regulation

Official social statistics standards

Failure modes and hazards

Presenting change as uniformly good or bad

Partisan framing

Unsourced trend claims

Also called

social developmentmodernizationChinese style modernizationmodernization of the Polish Armed Forcesgovernment digitalizationGrid modernizationecological modernizationsocietal transformationsocialist transformation of ownershipcommodificationdeinstitutionalisationIndustrious Revolutionhuman developmentgrowth of religionpolitical changeTransformative social changechild development

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Domain What changes.

Domains differ.

Area

Culture, technology.

Area

Domain.

  1. Which area of society is changing? definition
  2. Which specific entry fits? action

Pace

Speed.

Pace

Pace.

  1. How fast is the change? measurement
  2. From which data? provenance
Drivers Causes.

Drivers need evidence.

Causes

Drivers.

Causes

Drivers.

  1. What drives the change, according to research? provenance
  2. Is the evidence strong? boundary

Actors

Who shapes it.

Actors

Actors.

  1. Which actors promote or resist it? provenance
  2. Are positions attributed? boundary
Effects Consequences.

Effects are uneven.

Groups

Who is affected.

Groups

Effects on groups.

  1. Which groups gain or lose? provenance
  2. How is that measured? measurement

Unintended

Side effects.

Unintended

Unintended effects.

  1. What unintended consequences have been documented? provenance
  2. By whom? provenance
Neutrality Balance.

Change is contested.

Balance

Views.

Balance

Balanced account.

  1. Are supportive and critical views presented fairly? boundary
  2. Is loaded language avoided? boundary

Data

Sources.

Data

Data sources.

  1. Which official statistics track this change? provenance
  2. Are definitions stable over time? boundary

What the second pass must settle

  • Should kinds of social change be separate entries?
  • How should trend data be linked?
  • How should named programmes be linked?
Draft as JSON