Abstract:
Thomas Samuel Kuhn (1922-1996) made a remarkable
revolutionary impact on the methodology of science and social sciences
through his writing on the structure of scientific revolution [1962]. In this
magnum opus he made a paradigm shift and a cognitive revolution in the
normal sciences and the social sciences. The so-called professional research
on sciences and social sciences undergone a stereotype stagnation and
Thomas Kuhn gets his idea of revolutionary science through history of
science to overcome this problem. This study also analyzes Thomas Kuhn’s
analogy between scientific revolution and the political revolution in order to
explore the common basis new philosophical methodology of sciences and
social sciences and critically evaluate Thomas Kuhn’s notion of scientific
revolution and the identification of anomaly or crisis in natural sciences and
social sciences. In this study the original writings of Thomas Kuhn were
critically analyzed with the special reference to the structure of scientific
revolution. Qualitative critical hermeneutic method is being used to explore
creative critical method of Thomas Kuhn in sciences and social sciences.
According to Thomas Kuhn a scientific community cannot practice its
profession without some sets of received beliefs, and the nature of rigorous
preparation exert a deep hold on the student’s mind and normal science
often suppresses the fundamental novelties and for him the normal science
functions like puzzle solving. Thomas Kuhn argues that the research in the
field of science education is an attempt to force nature into the conceptual
boxes supplied by the professional education. According to Thomas Kuhn
revolution will make a change in the world view, when the paradigm change,
the world view itself changes in an extensive manner. Revolution will make a
progressive impact not only in natural sciences but also in the social and
political sciences and history. Such revolutionary science and successive
stages in these developmental processes should be marked by an active
articulation in the new fields of sciences and social sciences.
