Kuhn's Scientific Revolutions and Paradigm Shifts in Modern Accounting

This report provides a comprehensive review of Thomas Kuhn's theory of paradigm shifts and scientific revolutions, focusing on its application within the field of accounting. The executive summary and introduction set the stage by outlining Kuhn's key concepts, including the notion of paradigms as intellectual frameworks and the process of scientific revolutions. The discussion section delves into Kuhn's explanation of paradigms and the structure of scientific revolutions, exploring the misconceptions of normal science and the implications of paradigm shifts. It examines how Kuhn's ideas have influenced the development of accounting theories and practices, along with the challenges of incommensurability and objectivity. The report also includes a gap in literature, highlighting areas for further research. The provided references support the analysis of Kuhn's work and its relevance to the accounting discipline, offering insights into how scientific revolutions impact accounting's evolution. The report is a student contribution to Desklib, a platform offering AI-based study tools.

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Executive summary
The aim of the report is to maker a review of the Kuhn’s theory of paradigm as an intellectual
framework which makes research possible. It is argued that the term could internationally be
understood as a punitive matrix in a sociological framework while the origin mainly denotes
to the real riddle explanations that could be understood as examples of good science. It is
observed that the procedure of paradigm change for Kuhn leads to a scientific revolution.
Lastly Kuhn’s argument on incommensurability of opposing paradigm and the delinquent of
objectivity are also discussed in this report.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Discussion..................................................................................................................................3
Gap in literature..........................................................................................................................5
Reference....................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
Thomas Kuhn’s the structure of scientific revolution is a milestone in the history and
philosophy of science possibly the most significant work in the last third of the century, and
effortlessly amongst the most significance of the 20th century. From 1966 to 1983 it was the
maximum quoted book in the arts of humanities citation index and a current evaluation
initiate that on normal it has been quoted more than once per day from the date of its
preliminary publication. Structure also ruins unmatched amongst works in the history and
philosophy of science for accomplishment a figure audience and some of its important
thoughts have had an uniform wider effect. As such the guardian currently listed it as the 21st
most significant factual books of all time. Possibly the utmost permanent and far attainment
impression is that of paradigm shifts which, as McCrum notes, has showed so popularity that
bit acknowledged the final tribute no less than four new Yorker spoofing.
Within the former few years, numerous publications have seemed to mark the 50th
centenary of structure. In the concluding work the sociologist Andrew abbot observed at how
the effort had been quoted over that time period. With not less than 15000 orientation to the
english language versions of the work, he made several interesting observations about the
ways in which it has been quoted.
Discussion
Undertake a review of literature to discuss what Kuhn’s explained about the paradigm
and structure of scientific revolutions.
The structure of scientific revolution Kuhn’s misconception of normal science

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Over the last 50 years afterward the publication of the structure of scientific
revolutions many of the Thomas Kuhn’s commencement of normal science endure to effect
thinking around how science developed. Research in a field is frequently expected to be
obsessed by a major paradigm. The paradigm is supposed to direct the difficulties that are
talked by lessons and the answer that are created. Science is frequently compared to a
procedure of enigma solving. Though, we contend that Kuhn importantly overvalued the role
of the paradigm in study and significantly undervalued the theoretical progresses that take
place in normal science. In our views, his place seemed sensible only because he altered the
meaning of paradigm from the invention to the entire gathering of opinions and performs in a
field. He also overstated scientist’s promise to a paradigm and the degree to which they are
prejudiced toward validation. Kuhn’s fallacy stem in part, from psychological
misassumptions about the rational and incentive of scientists. we accomplish by telling that
the humble quantity specify that most significant detections are made throughout normal
science and that the uprising considered by Kuhn are not dominant to the progression of
science (Sanbonmatsu & Sanbonmatsu 2017).
Implication of paradigm shift in nursing
By seeking answers to ontological and epistemological questions, nursing scholars
discovered the basis of nursing and uttered the connotation of nursing science from numerous
philosophical viewpoints. This continuing search for progression and expansion of nursing
bring into line with the idea of usual science by Thomas Kuhn. Kuhns science effect nursing
knowledge subsequent in the growth of nursing metaparadigm and paradigms.
Notwithstanding the effect, Kuhn’s science significance of nursing science established a little
scrutinization. This article grants a perilous examination of Kuhn’s science and its effect on
and significance for nursing discipline and proposes insinuation for nursing knowledge
expansion (Younas & Parsons 2019).

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Historical development and paradigm shift in public health nutrition science, guidance
and policy actions.
Public health nutrition pursues to defend and indorse the nutrition related health and
comfort of people. public health nutrition science of active and has changed over time,
serving to notify our thought of the altering nature, possibility, details and answer to public
health nutrition glitches. The scientific foundation has well-versed nutrition direction and
strategy. Using a description combination technique and directed by Kuhn’s theory on the
edifice of a scientific revolutions, this paper reviews the historical developments of the public
health nutrition aiming to understand the emergence of major scientific paradigms, paradigm
changes and indication well-versed direction and strategy (Ridgway, et al 2019).
Gap in literature
The structure of scientific revolution Kuhn’s misconception of normal science
The article only speaks about the misconception of normal science but the theory of
Kuhn covers more subjects than the misconception of normal science Kuhn theory gives
more details about the revolutionary changes that evolved in the scientific theories over the
period.
Implication of paradigm shift in nursing
This article speaks a little about the effect of Kuhn theory on nursing only but the
Kuhn theory also covers many other concepts like accountancy, management and so on.
Historical development and paradigm shift in public health nutrition science, guidance
and policy actions

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This web article consider only about the paradigm shift in public health and nutrition
science but Kuhn covers the entire field of science so there is a little information in the article
about the theory of Kuhn.
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Ridgway, E., Baker, P., Woods, J., & Lawrence, M. (2019). Historical developments and
paradigm shifts in Public Health Nutrition Science, guidance and policy actions: a
narrative review. Nutrients, 11(3), 531.
Sanbonmatsu, D. M., & Sanbonmatsu, K. K. (2017). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions:
Kuhn’s misconceptions of (normal) science. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical
Psychology, 37(3), 133.
Younas, A., & Parsons, K. (2019). Implications for Paradigm Shift in Nursing: A Critical
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Nursing. Advances in Nursing Science, 42(3), 243-254.

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