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