Research Update - Findings and Reflections from our Second Year Studying Culture Change
Summary
A 2023 update from FrameWorks Institute’s Culture Change Project, tracking American ‘cultural mindsets’ since 2020. The rise in systemic thinking, the sense that “what surrounds us shapes us”, has plateaued, fading on racism and weakest on health. Meanwhile ‘system is rigged’ thinking spreads across ideologies: “arguably the central terrain on which our politics will be contested in coming years”.
Rationale
Evidence that conditions keep working on us: thinking that moved in 2020’s upheaval has partly drifted since. FrameWorks mostly prescribes better framing; our question is what keeps individualism the default.
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