The relationship between theory and paradigm

MSO-001: SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES CONCEPTS

Course Code: MSO-001

Assignment Code: MSO-001/AST/TMA/2016-17

Total Marks: 100

Q. 1. Discuss the relationship between theory and paradigm.

Ans. The concept of scientific paradigm and particularly the sociological paradigm, is closely connected to sociological theories. If we assume that a scientific paradigm represents a general hypothesis of scientific knowledge, a general knowledge which can be presented both as a practical one and as a specific matrix of scientific research, then we can talk about a wider and more exact system of views, attitudes and theories concerning the scientific explanation of objective reality. In its widest meaning, a scientific paradigm is ‘a set of facts and convictions which is systematically presented, that is presented as a theory whose function is to initiate theoretical productions, and practical research in certain fields thereafter, so that it appears in this sense as a source of some future or already existing theoretical composition

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