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{{Definitional Topic
|Question=What are '''sociocultural factors?''' How should they be ''defined?''
|Topic Type=Definitional
|Description=When changes in the scientific mosaic occur due to factors outside of what a mosaic considers to be "intellectual", those sources of change are referred to as "sociocultural factors". Sociocultural factors can include individual and group interests, power, politics, economics, etc. The question is how the term ''sociocultural factors'' is to be defined.
|Formulated Year=2016
|Prehistory=In the Aristotelian-Medieval mosaic, the Cartesian mosaic, and much of the Newtonian mosaic, scientists were for the most part strictly rationalist — a view which dictates that scientific beliefs are a consequence only of reason and evidence.[[CiteRef::Brown (2001)|p. 150]],[[CiteRef::Shapere (1986)|p. 4]] The distinction between intellectual and sociocultural influences in science were not clearly defined, as there were not yet disciplinary boundaries within the sciences. Many factors that influenced scientific change that we now consider to be ''sociocultural'' organically fell under the rationalist umbrella within this highly holistic enterprise of knowledge-seeking.[[CiteRef::Shapere (1986)|p. 4]]