Kuhn & postmodernists

    Cards (5)

    • maybe science isn't as _____ as we think
      objective
    • what does Kuhn argue?

      -science isn't entirely objective
      > it works within paradigms
    • what's a paradigm? 

      -particular & accepted set of thoughts & assumptions
      -about way things are & how research should be done
    • young science
      -sociology should be seen as this
      -as it doesn't yet have a unifying paradigm
    • postmodernists view

      -science is just a single metanarrative