The Paradigm

Many definitions float around in society and clusters of people who have common interest or purposes to interrelate. The sociological anthropological field is no different. What needs to happen within these bodies then is for an official body to standardized terms. Sometimes this body just becomes a well-respected author. Paradigm is one such word. In the non-anthropological world the word is defined by the Oxford Dictionary by a Apattern or example." While the dictionary of anthropology says Aparadigm to a theoretical model to explain of social behaviour. Paradigm refers to that part of the culture that defines the culture. It is the essence of the culture. Parts of the Paradigm might be exhibited in other cultures but only one culture one culture that exhibit all of the characteristics of the paradigm. A paradigm might be delineated by behaviour and worldview. If we delve deeper into the aspects of behaviour and world view we would find that different parts of the culture inter mingle so that the behaviour is not separated from the world view. The behaviour in various ways creates the worldview and conversely the worldview establishes what the behaviour is. It would appear wonderful to have a hierarchical listing of behaviour, worldview, or location that forms the worldview but culture does not delineate within itself to decide that certain aspects of it are less necessary than others. Certain cultures emphasise different aspects of the paradigm model but all the aspects would be found in a culture, and all of them lead in creating the Paradigm. The different factors that create the worldview are concept of the individual, patterns of behaviour, assumptions about the world and the way people should behave