social change

is a process driven by discordances and contingencies. They are not something that need to be naturalized at all, rather they are the very mediums through which social life is routinely coordinated and ordinarily transformed.

the economic sociologist David Stark suggests that contingency and its dissonances are the very medium through which social life is given dynamic forward momentum.35 Across this difference of interpretation, one finds a shared understanding in which the discordances and contingencies of social life are not something that need to be naturalized at all, but are the very mediums through which social life is routinely coordinated and ordinarily transformed.

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