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|Question=What are '''sociocultural factors?''' How should they be ''defined?''
|Topic Type=Definitional
|Description=How When changes in the scientific mosaic occur due to forces 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, religion, politics, economics, etc. As the sodemarcation between science and non-called ''science is currently understood to be a local distinction, we are unable to explicate generally applicable descriptions for what should be considered sociocultural factors, and which are intellectual. Identifying any of the above influences (political, religious, etc.) as either “sociocultural” or “intellectual” can only be done with regards to a particular mosaic. Currently, it is understood that the laws of scientific change allow for the influence of sociocultural factors'' .[Laws p. 239] Sociocultural factors can affect scientific change in one of two different from ''intellectual'' ways, as the process of scientific change is broken down into two elements. The two questions concerning the role of sociocultural factors in scientific change are stated as follows: 1. Can sociocultural factorsaffect the process of theory acceptance, and, if so, under what conditions can they affect the process?[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 235]]2. Both Can sociocultural factors affect the process of these term need to method employment and, if so, under what conditions can they affect the profess?[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 235]] At this stage, Scientonomy will not be given proper definitionsaddressing the question of what role sociocultural factors play in theory construction.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p.234]]
|Formulated Year=2016
|Current View=The term is only loosely described in ''The Laws of Scientific Change'' as encompassing political, religious, economic, and social factors, as well as group and individual interests.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 233-234]] A more precise definition is needed.
