The Issues for 1999 and Paradigms for the Millenium
The Issues for 1999 and Paradigms for the Millenium

Summary/Abstract: The author’s thesis is that today’s unsolved, fundamental political and social, as well as fundamental scientific problems are the other side of the coin of the existing paradigms from the point of view of time and place – and the toponymic indications of the new, the missing ones. Based on Commons’ observations about the types of socio-scientific paradigms that have been dominant in the last three centuries of modern age, in periods of prosperity and crises, the author concludes that we should not expect the appearance of a new paradigm soon. Today, searching for urgent solutions to social problems that science has not found answers to, we should design a research strategy that will look anew into the transitions among various paradigms that have been replacing each other during these three centuries, and look for the probably lost theoretical elements of the social and the political “form analysis” that will, aided by the contemporary empirical-research rigorousness enable us a better understanding of the transformation of the forms of social and political institutions and processes, and thus establish the new foundations for their more reliable normative, formal, and quantitative analysis, as well as their controlled change via appropriate public policies.

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