paradigmpar‧a‧digm /ˈpærədaɪm/ ●○○ AWL noun [countable] paradigmOrigin:
1400-1500 Late Latin paradigma, from Greek paradeigma, from paradeiknynai ‘to show side by side’ - 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.
- 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.
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.
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