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I find sociology to be an endlessly fascinating subject. Today, I was thinking about the concept of path dependence.

This is the concept that the current state is not merely dependent on recent rational choices, but also on prior states, conditions, beliefs, norms, and values, some of which may no longer exist.

See also "local minimum".

https://www.britannica.com/topic/path-dependence

#PathDependency #LocalMinimum

I find sociology to be an endlessly fascinating subject. Today, I was thinking about the concept of path dependence.

This is the concept that the current state is not merely dependent on recent rational choices, but also on prior states, conditions, beliefs, norms, and values, some of which may no longer exist.

See also "local minimum".

https://www.britannica.com/topic/path-dependence

#PathDependency #LocalMinimum

@DaenuMullis #localMinimum 😅

@DaenuMullis #localMinimum 😅