switch_theme() is the function you need but this…
why is someone changing the stylesheet and no longer changing the
theme?
… indicates a misunderstanding. You provide the $stylesheet as an argument but you are switching the theme as a whole not just the stylesheet. And, for reasons unknown, $stylesheet isn’t the stylesheet. It is:
$stylesheetis the name of your folder slug. It’s the same value that
you’d use for a child theme, something liketwentythirteen.
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