RELS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Thomas Kuhn, Normal Science, Asteroid Family

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 200
• Professor: Irving Hexham

Document Summary

Walter fisher coined the term and argues that narrative paradigms are the basic framework in which people operate. Thomas kuhn made the term popular and wrote a book that became a key text in education. He said that a paradig(cid:373) is defi(cid:374)ed as (cid:858)pre-science(cid:859). Before you had s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e, there is an element of human thought that tries to make sense of the world. Development of science challenges the existing understanding of the world and leads to a crisis. Kuhn then says that the big change was not that the world was round, but that the earth resolved around the sun and that this was the change that brought about the scientific revolution. Kuhn says that a paradigm is a model (an imaginary analogy) in which you perceive the world and that we are not aware of the models in which we see the world.