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Annual Review of Political Science

Volume 1, 1998

Review Article

SOCIAL SCIENCE AND SCIENTIFIC CHANGE: A Note on Thomas S. Kuhn's Contribution

Nelson W. Polsby¹
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Affiliations: Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720; e-mail: [email protected]
Vol. 1:199-210 (Volume publication date June 1998) https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.polisci.1.1.199
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A new reading is proposed for The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by the late Thomas S. Kuhn, in which the sort of resistance to change he describes as integral to paradigm shifts is found to be less common in the contemporary hard sciences but useful and applicable in understanding political and social science.

Keyword(s): Kuhn, paradigm, social science

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