DSOC 1101 Midterm: Complete DSOC Study Guide
12 Jun 2016
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Paradigm: universally recognized scientific achievement that, for a time, provide model problems and solutions set of achievements that attracts a following open-ended framework that includes unsolved problems. Scientists of similar paradigm congregate for discussion social science. Scientists tend not to renounce their paradigm, even during a science crisis when the paradigm can"t explain an anomaly. Scientists never reject one paradigm without simultaneously accepting another = can never have a paradigm vacuum. Scientific practice encompasses a set of laws, theories, applications, and instrumentations. Breakdown of old paradigm science accumulates new evidence old scientists still accept old paradigm old scientists die and new scientists replace them new scientists accept new paradigm. Paradigms, by definition, are incommensurable (same data/results yield different interpretations) Cheerleader for revolutionary middle class ( rising bourgeoisie ) team. Middle class and ordinary people rising in england. Large amounts of skilled/efficient labor, big population, division of labor. Supply of labor depends on the ratio between employed & unemployed.
