Role of Sociocultural Factors in Method Employment

What is the role of sociocultural factors, such as economics or politics, in the process of method employment?

Sociocultural factors can have a strong effect on which theories a particular community chooses to accept and which methods they opt to employ. This question seeks to answer how sociocultural factors such as war and famine might affect the process of method employment in a particular community.

In the scientonomic context, this question was first formulated by Hakob Barseghyan in 2015. The question is currently accepted as a legitimate topic for discussion by Scientonomy community.

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Community	Accepted From	Acceptance Indicators	Still Accepted	Accepted Until	Rejection Indicators
Scientonomy	1 January 2016	The question became de facto accepted by the community at that time together with the whole theory of scientific change.	Yes

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