A way of thinking which can occasionally lead to misleading predispositions; a prejudice. A route of mental efficiency which has presumably been verified by affirmative results/predictions
A model or pattern that an individual or group uses in trying to understand something Present-day biblical scholars usually name and describe the paradigm they are using when presenting their results or opinions Sometimes "paradigm" is used synonymously with "methodology," but often it has a broader connotation, more like "world-view " A hundred years ago, biblical scholarship concerned itself mostly with trying to discover the original audience, authorial intention, and historical setting of the biblical text, because people believed that only the original context could tell us what the Bible really meant Nowadays scholars are operating under a different paradigm, which believes in a multiplicity of contexts and meanings
In general, pattern, exemplar, or example (especially an outstanding or unproblematic example); more technically, a theoretical, methodological, or heuristic framework Originally meaning the exemplification of the rule, the term paradigm has become the rule that governs the example In modern structural linguistics, particularly with Roman Jakobson [253], the paradigm is defined by complementary opposition to the syntagm, the paradigmatic axis being the system of associations from which the constitutive elements of the discursive chain, or syntagm, are selected
(1) (Mertens, 2003) A conceptual model of a person’s worldview, complete with the assumptions that are associated with that view (2) (Caracelli and Green, 2003) paradigms are social constructions, historically and culturally embedded discourse practices, and therefore neither inviolate nor unchanging Back to the top
"A paradigm is a set of rules and regulations (written or unwritten) that does two things: 1) it establishes or defines boundaries; and 2) it tells you how to behave inside the boundaries in order to be successful" (Joel Arthur Barker) "A shared set of assumptions The paradigm is the way we perceive the world; water to the fish The paradigm explains the world to us and helps us to predict its behavior When we are in the middle of the paradigm, it is hard to imagine any other paradigm" (Adam Smith) "A paradigm is a framework of thought a scheme for understanding and explaining certain aspects of reality" (Marilyn Ferguson) From the Greek paradeigma, which means 'model, pattern, example"
n A model, an example, a pattern or a mental pattern It is the makeup of an individual's, group's or nation's reality, of what their attention is focused on, and it lays out the map of how to get there from here A paradigm defines what can be perceived, what is acceptable, and what is not acceptable
Introduced by Thomas Kuhn in his 1962 work,The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the concept of paradigm is linked to a "coherent tradition of scientific research (p 11) " Examples include Newtonian mechanics or Copernican astronomy To say that a group of scientists shares a certain paradigm means that they have a common "way of seeing the world and of practicing science in it (p 4) "
A general conception, model, or "worldview" that may be influential in shaping the development of a discipline or subdiscipline (For example, "The classical, positivist social science paradigm in evaluation ")
Pronounced 'pa-ra-dime,' it is a global mind-set, the glasses through which society views the world Historian Thomas Kuhn coined it in 1962 A paradigm shift occurs when society sees the world through the new mind-set
A set of beliefs that defines the ways in which we think and act Paradigms categorize information as a way of compressing it; however, information which does not fit the paradigm is usually ignored
A collection of the major assumptions, concepts, and propositions in a substantive area of work or knowledge Paradigms serve to orient research and theorizing in an area, and resemble models Paradigms describe "approaches" and compactly codify central concepts and their relations
An acquired way of thinking about something that shapes thought and action in ways that are both conscious and unconscious Paradigms are essential because they provide a culturally shared model for how to think and act, but they can present major obstacles to adopting newer, better approaches
An overarching model A concept that is either so widely accepted, or applicable to so many different areas, that it can be used to build sub-models to describe particular areas of interest
the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time; "he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm" systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another)