PARADIGM


Meaning of PARADIGM in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

paradigm shift

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

dominant

Kuhn argues that science education is characterized by an uncritical teaching of the dominant paradigm within a subject.

The currently dominant paradigm throughout urban and regional sociology gives prime emphasis to class relations and processes.

First, bodies of thought take on a solidity through being structured around dominant paradigms .

This transference is exactly what one would expect if the dominant cultural paradigm is, as I have maintained, science.

Lindsey also finds that citation counts favour the scientist doing work in the mainstream or dominant paradigm .

The dominant paradigm within class-based urban and regional analysis nevertheless usually recognises the difficulties involved in creating a well-organised international working class.

new

The danger, however, is that the study of new paradigms remains a purpose in itself.

At best, what will emerge from this bureaucratic morass is an entirely new paradigm for dealing with cross-border studies.

The new paradigm will be very different from and incompatible with the old one.

Massive bottom-up infrastructure sprouted all over the world in bits and pieces, proliferated, and a new paradigm was created.

Such a perception was to lead to a new kind of paradigm or conceptual map.

The technical challenge is obvious when one realizes that traditional models of information management do not lend themselves to the new paradigm .

Would that bury the new economic paradigm ?

A smaller structure makes it easier to make the transition to a new organizational paradigm .

old

When this happens, there is a scientific revolution and the old paradigm is replaced with a new one.

The old organizational paradigm encouraged employees to view themselves as the occupants of a box called a job.

■ NOUN

shift

Either Mrs David has had an enormous impact on her countrymen or a major paradigm shift has occurred.

Can we expect to see a paradigm shift , where people want to drive less?

To wit, a paradigm shift .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Community interaction of this kind could be a paradigm for race relations in the future.

The needs of today's children cannot be met by our old educational paradigms.

The Vietnam War has become a powerful anti-war paradigm .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Although they embody a real-world claim about how agents are motivated, they function more like a paradigm than a generalization.

At best, what will emerge from this bureaucratic morass is an entirely new paradigm for dealing with cross-border studies.

Kuhn's own account of science entails that what is to count as a problem is paradigm or community dependent.

Kuhn argues that science education is characterized by an uncritical teaching of the dominant paradigm within a subject.

Much of modern sociology lacks a paradigm and consequently fails to qualify as science.

New paradigms are sure to emerge.

The old organizational paradigm encouraged employees to view themselves as the occupants of a box called a job.

The prospects for experimental tests of the dynamical transition paradigm seem particularly promising in the case of focal epilepsy.

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