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paradigm

All those factors, both scientific and sociological, that influence the research of the scientist. The term, first used by the US historian of science Thomas Kuhn, has subsequently spread to social studies and politics.



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It is, of course, not confined to architecture and the paradigm shift already goes by several names, the most helpful being that of the transition from Mode 1 to Mode 2 as described by Gibbons et al in their book The New Production of Knowledge.
 
 
 
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