Rapid socioeconomic change breeds frustration through anomie and rising expectations.

Evidence

There is a large family of theory that attributes extreme and destructive political behavior to an obviously “contingent” condition: unusually rapid, hence unusually unsettling, socioeconomic conditions. Frustrations are likely to arise under such conditions because of disorientation (anomie) per se, and because of the familiar occurrence of an excessive rise in expectations. At a minimum, the conditions of any contingency theory are more likely to be satisfied when change is rapid (and abrupt) than under more settled circumstances. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4339

Categorization

• XREF: Anomie and rising expectations connect to the J-curve / Davies curve of revolution and to relative deprivation theory discussed earlier in this book. — connects to: Rapid change can itself be the mechanism producing deep social standstill. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 109