1. Hi everyone! My name is Melody Garcia. I am 22 years old and I am an Aquarius. I have three siblings and I am Puerto Rican. During these past few months I’ve been trying to really understand what I want out of life. I’ve been doing a lot of soul searching and thinking about human connection and what it means to be vulnerable. My more technical aspirations involve graphic design and possibly owning my own business as i do not like someone else controlling my schedule or dictating what I am supposed to be doing. But that is a long way from now ha-ha.
2. ” They share a conceptual model that Kuhn calls a paradigm, and that paradigm
governs activity in their profession. Students who enter the discipline prepare for membership in its intellectual community by studying that paradigm.
But paradigms are not necessarily immutable. When several people working in a field begin to encounter anomalies or phenomena that cannot be
explained by the established model, the paradigm begins to show signs of
instability. For a while, those who subscribe to the paradigm try to ignore the
contradictions and inconsistencies that they find, or they make improvised,
ad hoc changes to cope with immediate crises. Eventually, however, when
enough anomalies accumulate to make a substantial number of scientists in
the field question whether the traditional paradigm can solve many of the
serious problems that face them, a few innovative thinkers will devise a new
model.”
I found it interesting when she described what a paradigm was and the shift that they tend to go through over time. I think it’s interesting because us as people love to know and understand how things work. We are problem solvers. Yet we can also get very comfortable with following a set of rules, even when we know it isn’t fully going well. Although we are great individual thinkers, we tend to feel comfortable with like-minded people and that can cause stagnation. Change will always follow, and that is what was described as a paradigm shift. Most of the time people get comfortable with this temporary solution. They ignore the small inconsistencies and try to find a reasonable explanation for them, until it has to be changed altogether. I find it intriguing to see how humans work and evolve together through ideas and challenging the things we think we know.
