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Call for Papers:  Proposed Session 1997 ASA Meeting, Washington, DC. 
 
Cultural Paradigms, or a Culture of Paradigms:  The Structure of Scientific 
Revolutions in America. 
 
1997 marks the 35th anniversary of Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of 
Scientific Revolutions.  To what degree does the intellectual culture in 
which do our work owe to Kuhn's Structure? This panel invites papers that 
investigate the impact of Structure on the culture of academic disciplines 
(e.g., analytic philosophy, sociology, history, American Studies, etc.), by 
focusing on the changes or transformations of the theories and methods 
therein. Proposals that locate Structure and/or Kuhn's work in the cultures 
of the academic disciplines and/or to issues of professional identity are 
encouraged, but I hope to attract a range of proposals. Papers might 
address the cultural processes that allow the transformation of "paradigm" 
from ambiguous concept in 1962 to cliche in 1997; papers that argue for, 
or propose, "Kuhnian" approaches to the contemporary study of human cultures 
and societies, past or present; the reception of Structure compared with 
the reception of Kuhn's subsequent work; the relationship between the 
notion of incommensurability in Structure and the more recent theories of 
the "Other"; or how Kuhn's conception of "community" compares with 
contemporary conceptions. 250 word abstracts to Thomas Frank, 607 Mitchell 
St., Ithaca, NY  14850 by January 10, 1997 or by email <[log in to unmask]> 
 
 
Thomas H. Frank 
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