I'm trying to say something to the effect of:
"While practitioners before the war were in an environment of ____, practitioners after the war were in an environment of accountability."
Meaning the previous era's practitioners weren't holding themselves to the results of their contributions.
Anyway, something other than "unaccountability" would be appreciated, of course.
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(emphasis mine)
Interesting word choice there. It makes me unsure what you mean.
If I don’t hold myself responsible for the consequences of my actions, I am irresponsible or undisciplined, possibly reckless. (These words imply a value judgment, though, so you wouldn’t use them in an academic or professional context without weighing them pretty carefully. But then, accountability is a loaded word too.)
If nobody else is holding me responsible, the environment is unregulated, ungoverned, unstructured, unmanaged, or lax; there is a Wild West atmosphere or perhaps lawlessness, indifference, or amorality; or to lapse completely into jargon, there is no social mechanism to keep me in line.
Social forces comes in a lot of shapes. Maybe it would be best to scrap that sentence and describe the change in question more precisely.