On Rupture: Establishing the Cognitive Bases of Social Change

This article presents a cognitive model of social rupture and develops its implications for change processes. It takes as foundation established research on the reflexive transition from implicit (i.e., Type 1) processing into conscious 2) that occurs when individuals’ automatic inferences about their environment become unreliable. By considering how this “conflict monitoring response” (Botvinick et al. 2001) associated affective effects play out within contexts, work establishes general, converges significantly with classic sociological perspectives subject. The second half mobilizes developed to establish bases processes they manifest across societal scales, intrapersonal macrosocial. After foregrounding key follow socio-cognitive perspective change, concludes by providing general framework presented can be used develop new empirical approaches studying real-world it unfolds via sensemaking