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Paradigmatic Processes in Culture Change
Author(s) -
WALLACE ANTHONY F. C.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1972.74.3.02a00160
Subject(s) - sociology , culture change , epistemology , environmental ethics , social change , social science , aesthetics , political science , law , philosophy
Paradigmatic processes in culture change are defined, in the sense of Thomas Kuhn, as the consequence of long‐continued deliberate effort by numbers of persons to innovate within a recognized technical, artistic, or intellectual tradition (or “school” or “discipline”). The evolving paradigm will often, after a certain point of development, attract exploitation; there will then occur various functionally entailed social‐cultural consequences; and ultimately efforts will be made to rationalize the change in religious, ethical, and philosophical terms.