Paradigms
A paradigm is a system of belief or theory that serves as guide to the way we do things or, our value and beliefs (Stolley, 2005). Paradigm may range from patterns of thought to action .Paradigms are seen as perspectives that allow social scientists to have broad range of tools to describe society, and to create hypotheses and theories(Stolley ,2005). Paradigm only describes a given phenomenon they can neither occur nor happen in the society for it is just a view point. Paradigm perspectives include conflict paradigm, functional paradigm and symbolic paradigm .In this essay I am going to look at ...