PARADIGM SHIFT Dictionary.

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What is a paradigm? paradigm as;
Webster’s dictionary • It is framework
defines paradigm as containing the basic
• A model or pattern for assumptions, ways of
something may be thinking, and
copied. methodology that are
• A theory or a group of commonly accepted by
ideas about how members of a scientific
something should be community.
done, made or thought
about
• A scientific paradigm
is a framework • The philosopher Thomas
containing all the Kuhn suggested that a
commonly accepted paradigm includes “the
views about a subject, practices that define a
conventions about scientific discipline at a
what direction certain point in time."
research should take
and how it should be
performed.
A paradigm dictates:

what is observed and measured

the questions we ask about those observations
how the questions are formulated
how the results are interpreted
how research is carried out
what equipment is appropriate
What is a Paradigm Shift?
• "The successive transition from one paradigm to another via
revolution is the usual developmental pattern of mature
science" -­Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

“revolutionary science,”
 Chapter 2
Intellectual Revolutions
that Defined Society