The Research On The Construction Of Modern Technological Paradigms

Since Talcott Parsons advocated the concept of"paradigm"at the beginning of the twentieth century, the academic circles began to study all aspects of it and had not only gained fruitful theoretical achievements but also played an indispensable role in the practice of technology development. The beginner of The Sociology of Science, R.K. Merton advocated the concept of"technology paradigm"whose contents are Universalism, Communism, Disinterestedness and Organized skepticism. The four paradigms are the great achievement of technology field and they also played an important role in developing technology theory. However any paradigm has to meet the interest of a certain social class. So it is the same with technology paradigms. Now modern technology damage our interest as well as bringing convenience to us. The technological staff in and out of China pay attention to this situation and make effort to solve the problem. But their researches about technological paradigms are limited in a certain area but not study them systematically.This thesis tries to overcome the shortcomings discussed above and to construct modern technology paradigms integrally, comprehensively and practically. On this base, this thesis firstly gives a definition for technological paradigms, analyzes its characters and functions. Then the thesis put forward five paradigms as follows: the combination of science and reason., the combination of imitation and creation, the combination of publicity and secrecy, the combination of convenience and standard, the combination of benefit and responsibility. At last the writer divides the people who implement the paradigms into three groups and put forward ways of implement for each group to accelerate the implement of modern technological paradigms in theory and practice.