SOCL 2001 Chapter : Science And Society
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Science and society: we are all in a cultural framework referred to as cultural knowledge (communicate without explaining every little thing; share some sort of assumed knowledge; ex. Meet in front of union: normal science, science conducted within an existing paradigm, ex. Darwin and survival of the fittest other scientists, social darwinism. Thomas kuhn: first to really look into how science was organized, scientific revolutions (paradigm shits) occur when enough anomalies accrue during the practice of normal science to challenge the existing paradigm, anomaly occurs once, ex. Dna: paradigm shift, kuhn"s theory, duck/rabbit picture, once you see the duck, hard to go back to another way of seeing it in both ways, this is how paradigm shifts work. Black plague rats; believed as a curse but now we can easily see the fleas on rats caused it due to low cleanliness and close living quarters: apply new paradigm to old situation, how we view the world:
