The two questions concerning the role of sociocultural factors in scientific change are stated as follows:
1. Can sociocultural factors affect the process of theory acceptance, and, if so, under what conditions can they affect the process?[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 235]]
2. Can sociocultural factors affect the process of method employment and, if so, under what conditions can they affect the profess?[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 235]]