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Kuhn's theory of the paradigm shift

which contradicts the paradigm, and which cannot be explained within the terms of the paradigm. This gives rise to further researc...

Consensus Approach Modification Elements, Weber, and Bureaucracy

group. Some groups, as in organization, are sometimes referred to as parties, Weber seems to state. Mostly, parties aim for some ...

Dicken's Hard Times in the Context of Thomas Kuhn's work

Scientific education is the focus of this paper that considers Kuhn's work on scientific revolutions. Liberal education as appears...

The Structure of the Scientific Revolutions Postscript by Thomas Kuhn

In twelve pages this paper examines Kuhn's postscript and then contrasts and compares the views expressed with Max Weber's sociolo...

Emergency Management Models

For instance, Avery argued there are three basic organizational paradigms: classical, transactional, organic and visionary (Jing a...

Factors in Nursing Philosophy Development

an ED, in general, nursing interaction focuses on individuals, as the point of the emergency service is to stabilize patients in ...

Paradigm Shift: Marriage

and remain within regardless of the hardships. This attitude changed after a decade, for a variety of mental illness instabilities...

Isaac Newton to Albert Einstein Theoretical Paradigm Shift

In five pages this paper examines shifting theoretical paradigms from Sir Isaac Newton to Albert Einstein. Five sources are cited...

Computer Science's Shifting Paradigm

they became more common and more accessible. Shift of Paradigm A favorite saying of Mary...

Psychology and Shifting Paradigms

In five pages this paper discusses psychology in an overview of the contemporary paradigm shift in this field of science. Three s...

Shifting Newtonian Paradigms

of a desire to explain this new, more confusing universe. One source writes that many times, small choices can lead to "overwhelmi...

Exploring the World of Scientific Discovery Through Changing Paradigms, Flexibility, and False Western Science Confidence

initially "sensory evidence - seeing, smelling, hearing, touching - generally confirms our knowledge giving us confidence that som...

God's Doctrine as Interpreted by Gordon Kaufman, Pamela Young, and Sallie McFague

evil, was literally personified in the body of evil curses, evil spirits and superstitions. Now, of course, for the most part peop...

Individual Rights v. States Rights

This research paper investigates literature that examines the inherent tension between the rights of individuals and states rights...

Learning Styles Discussion

This paper discusses learning styles and the instructional paradigm shift that began happening two decades ago. Theorists cited in...

Psychology's Role in Health Research and Health Care/Johnson

This paper analyzes an article by Suzanne B. Johnson that discusses the paradigm shift in health care away from the biomedical mod...

Paradigms of Radical Humanism and Radical Structuralism

In ten pages these radical paradigms are defined, compared, and then considered within the context of the market view, Theory X an...

Public Perception Shifts

In ten pages this paper discusses various issues that represent public attitude shifts....

Comparison of Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

the womens circumstances and the move to change those circumstances. Rochesters dismissal of Antoinette, her family and her commun...

Scientific Theories of Thomas Kuhn

break through by inventing a new paradigm are] almost always...either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they chan...

Scientific Revolutions and the Perspectives of Thomas S. Kuhn

of practitioners" (Davidson, 1997, p. 13). The existing paradigms of the science community, according to Kuhn, are established vi...

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn

In four pages this paper discusses how behavior theory was advanced by Thomas Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. T...

Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn

In five pages this research paper analyzes the revolutionary theories featured in this 1962 text by Thomas S. Kuhn. Three sources...

Sixteenth Through Seventeenth Centuries' Scientific Concepts

upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...

The Myth of Scientific Progess

themselves, but rather because of sweeping conceptual changes across culture as a whole (Kuhn, 1996). For instance, the industrial...

Theory of Human Caring/Jean Watson

experience of another person, and another can enter into the nurses experiences" (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003, p. 25). Watson rega...

Belief Systems

and how we react within that world. It includes our values and beliefs about anything that we encounter. Initial paradigms are dev...

Paradigms in Social Work

This essay discusses the definition of "paradigm" and then describes the differences between several pairs of alternative and trad...

2 Nursing Paradigm Models

the people involved (Oberle and Allen, 2002). The principal focus of the simultaneity paradigm is on the clients perspectives of t...

Twelve Hour Work Shifts and Nursing

fairly positive towards the 12-hour shift, but the nursing educators were extremely negative. The teaching staff opposed the use o...