What causes humans to change their course? Below are listed several possibilities, roughly in the order they most often occur in. It is important to note that none of these items always happen, but when they do it is usually in this order.

1. Environmental Change
2. Scientific Discovery
3. Technological Innovation
4. Public Awareness of a Problem
5. Political Change
6. Corporate/Insitutional Change

Usually the first three are largely accidential or beyond the control of humans. Public awareness is often spawned by scientific discovery, and occassionally technological innovation is spawned by public awareness (switching the order of the list around slightly). Public awareness is probably the most interesting, as it has the greatest instigator of change in the public.

The last two are less likely to happen right away, or be the root cause of change. Politics and corporations typically change in reaction to one of the first four, particularly the fourth one, as awareness is neccessary to insitutite any change.

What causes individuals to change their course? This implies the micro-level of investigation and causes specific to each person changing and not humans as a larger group.

1. Social Pressures
2. Personal/Moral Pressure
3. New Laws or Regulation (Governmental)
4. Corporate/Insitutitional Regulation Changes

The first two are done by the autonomous individual to maximize his personal comfort or fully engage in social situtations. They involve questions of conscience, and nobody is forced to change under these conditions.

The second two are generally required, unless you move or otherwise act outside of the jursidication of control. Outside includes at home where nobody is watching, physically moving out of the jurisdiction, or quiting the employement or moving away from the social condititions that force one to act in a certain way.

This theory is an oversimplification of the dynamic of change, and is incomplete, but provides an interesting basis for debating change. More should be added at a later point, along with pratical examples.