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In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn argues that it is the abandonment of critical discourse among competing schools of theory that marks the transition of a field to a science. “To be accepted as the authority,” writes Kuhn, “a theory must seem better than its competitors, but it need not, and in fact never does, explain all the facts with which it can be confronted” (Kuhn, 1962, p. 17). The acceptance of one paradigm ends constant reiteration of fundamentals, gives scholars confidence they are on the right track so they undertake more precise sorts of work, allows for ongoing communication among researchers, and gives direction to both theory articulation and data collection.
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Feldman, D.C. (1980). On Research in Organizational Socialization. In: Pinder, C.C., Moore, L.F. (eds) Middle Range Theory and the Study of Organizations. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8733-3_26
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