KONSEP PARADIGMA ILMU-ILMU SOSIAL DAN RELEVANSINYA PERKEMBANGAN PENGETAHUAN

The main purpose of this study is to explain the various concepts of paradigms in
the social sciences. There are three paradigms in the social sciences, the
paradigm of social facts, social definition, and social behavior. Social fact is
something that is beyond the individual reality therefore social fact divided into
two terms of the material entity and non material entity. Material entity is
something tangible goods, while the unity of the non material entity is considered
to be something that no goods. Social definition paradigm directs attention to how
to interpret human social life or how they form a real social life. While the
paradigm of social behavior discussing on individual behavior that takes place in
an environment that causes or changes due to subsequent behavior. The
differences between paradigm must be seen as positive because each paradigms
can support buliding scientific tradition
Keyword: Paradigm, social fact, social definition, social behavior