Trend Studies and the Operational Concept of Cultural Trend as Change(s): A Semi-systematic Review

Future Studies and Trends Studies operate various concepts and terminologies rooted in a prospective basis of action. While Trend Studies look from the past to the present in search of patterns, Future Studies focus and aim at scenarios and possibilities for narratives to come. The convergence of areas regarding the use of ‘trend’ terminology has been explored in different ways in the literature. This requires a clarification of this concept, which is addressed in this text with the support of a semi-systematic review, to build an operational definition of trend. This article seeks to explore, in the first phase, the approach to the concept of trend. In the second part, we develop a systematic literature review to define the concept and present an operational definition in the last part. The contributions of this research are related to the definition of the term “trend” and the categorization of authors who operates it.