 | Carl E. Braaten - Religion - 184 pages
...definition in his modern classic, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. He says, "A paradigm is an entire constellation of beliefs, values, techniques, and so on shared by members of a given community."3 This definition is close to the meaning of the word when people speak of the post-modern... | |
 | Paul Ernest - Philosophy - 1998 - 336 pages
...scientific community: the term "paradigm" is used in two different senses. On the one hand, it stands for the entire constellation of beliefs, values, techniques, and so on shared by the members of a given community. On the other, it denotes one sort of element in that constellation,... | |
 | Samuel O. Okpaku - Medical - 1998 - 490 pages
...the context of describing the evolution (and the revolution) of sciences: "On one hand, it stands for the entire constellation of beliefs, values, techniques and so on shared by the members of a given community. On the other, it denotes one sort of element in that constellation,... | |
 | Alex T. Cheung - Religion - 1999 - 374 pages
...the second edition, he recommends using the term 'disciplinary matrix' for 'paradigm' in the sense of 'the entire constellation of beliefs, values, techniques, and so on shared by the members of a given community' (p. 175; cf. pp. 182, 187). For an excellent discussion on the implications... | |
 | John A. Vasquez - Political Science - 1998 - 472 pages
...inconsistencies are removed, the concept is used in two distinct ways: On the one hand, it stands for the entire constellation of beliefs, values, techniques, and so on shared by the members of a given 1 For a criticism of work in political science that has failed to take note... | |
 | Merrilee H. Salmon, Clark Glymour - Science - 1999 - 474 pages
...needs to be said. For Kuhn a paradigm has two distinct connotations. It stands, on the one hand, "for the entire constellation of beliefs, values, techniques, and so on shared by the members of a given community" (Kuhn 1970, 175). Thus a research paradigm is what a scientific community... | |
 | Arild Holt-Jensen - History - 1999 - 248 pages
...geographical tradition. The other meaning of paradigm put forward by Kuhn is as a disciplinary matrix - 'the entire constellation of beliefs, values, techniques and so on shared by the members of a given community' (1970a, p. 175). A disciplinary matrix may be shared by a large group... | |
 | Richard Viladesau - Art - 2000 - 286 pages
...Kuhn's thesis to theology in an explicit way. A "paradigm" for Kung is the equivalent of a model — "an entire constellation of beliefs, values, techniques, and so on shared by members of a given community."77 Kung further distinguishes three main levels at which such models may be operative and... | |
 | Nigel Rapport, Joanna Overing - Social Science - 2000 - 484 pages
...the immediate past, scientists find themselves under new dispensations. Kuhn defines a paradigm as 'the entire constellation of beliefs, values, techniques and so on, shared by the members of a given community' (1970: 175). Learnt at initiation and socially imposed thereafter,... | |
 | E.A. Chambers - Education - 2001 - 214 pages
...earlier entangled two different meanings when using this key term: on the one hand, "paradigm" stands for the entire constellation of beliefs, values, techniques and so on shared by the members of a given community. On the other,. ..the concrete puzzle solutions which, employed as... | |
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On the one hand, it stands for the entire constellation of beliefs, values, techniques, and so on shared by the members of a given community. 
