Great questions! Lucky for us, there are hundred+ books on the former and a good number on the latter. The first is a *founding* question of sociology! Discussed in Socy 101 classes. Sure! Let's do more research but don't need to invent "studies" for the way article suggests.https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1156260396317253632 …
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New insights are always possible. But hopefully building on existing work. Danger of inventionism is this: to understand anti-vaccination waves, one needs to read Hofstadter. To understand Instagram drama, one needs to read Goffman. Unfortunately, funders tend to like "all new"!
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Why is progress uneven and why and how is an awesome question with an enormous amount of good, deep and substantive existing work. It's not understudied.Show this thread
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Yeah, but I would say the difference is we need a cross-disciplinary study of why technological revolutions happen when and where they do. Sure, there are hundreds of soc/hist studies of each, hyperspecialized. But we need to study forests and patterns of forests, not trees.
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