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To: paul_philp who wrote (76078)	2/20/2003 4:17:39 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Is it Kuhn's ideas you reject, the predictive power of paradigm shift watching or the idea that we are experiencing a paradigm shift? None of the above. Just a shrug of been-there-done-that. Kuhn was a very big deal when I was in grad school in the middle 60s. So we all started looking for paradigm changes in sociology. It was let-a-thousand-flowers-bloom time. Everything was a paradigm change. I still recall when Leo Goodman, a statistician at the University of Chicago, published an article on non-linear approaches to the analysis of categorical variables (just threw shop talk in for no reason at all). Well, everyone published articles on paradigm change. Ditto for Wallerstein's world systems stuff. Ditto for the end of Talcott Parsons influence. It goes on and on and on. Oh, yes, E. P. Thompsons's Making of the English Working Class was a paradigm change for social history. Etc. Your posts simply remind me of all that. Since I have never posted what I believe is the nature of the paradigm shift (saving it for the book) it is probably premature to reject my ideas. I'm not rejecting your ideas. Just funning you and sighing. Much too publicly.