Kuhn's Explanation of Scientific Revolutions as Post-Modernism
The politics the book ascribed to science resonated closely with prevailing attitudes. Scientists ("the Man") resist new (baby boomer) ideas, clinging to old (Western white male), outdated theories even as the evidence they are being willfully blind to accumulates (discrimination) like energy in an electron until it finally becomes overwhelming (the civil rights movement). Then, suddenly, in a crystallizing moment (revelation), the ruling order is displaced (comeuppance) and the intellectual understanding of the old (bigoted) paradigm (attitude) shifts to a new, wider-<-orbiting (more tolerant and inclusive) paradigm that incorporates (affirmative ve action) previously discounted outliers (disempowered groups).
Notes:
An interesting comparison.
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