1. Worldviews and Cosmological Myths
It is ideologies that can lead to social paradigm shifts when they become the trigger for a complete transformation of a worldview. ... The first is when a new paradigm replaces an old one and there is little or no continuity between the two, it is called a Two-Stage Paradigm Shift Model. ... The second model, known as the Three-Stage Paradigm Dialectic Model, is a paradigm shift which is completed in three stages: thesis, antitheses, and synthesis. In this model the old paradigm shifts over a period of minor transitions into a new paradigm. This is the more plausible model for it does ...
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