Honors Thesis Colloquium

Hi to all of you.  I’ve added the new category called “Weekly Reflections” so that you can start posting those over the break as you continue your reading and research in the midst of holiday merriment!

http://contexts.org/socimages/2008/12/06/how-and-why-people-of-color-are-included-in-advertising-6th-in-a-series/

this article is the 6th in a series. you should particularly take note of the posts in response to the article since many people find the author’s critique difficult to reconcile with existing notions of how racism is stopped.

Here’s my abstract as it stands right now.  Feel free to shot me any feedback on it.  It’s really short but I don’t want to give too much more background.

Thanks!

-Greg

This study utilizes Thomas Kuhn’s cyclic model of paradigm shifts and Paul Feyerabend’s criticisms of it to create a new model for the progression of paradigms in the history of science. This new ‘Poly-Cyclic Model’ takes Kuhn’s phases of the structure of scientific revolutions (Pre-Paradigm, Normal, and Revolutionary) and elucidates the effects of cultural and non-rational thought on the progression and regression of scientific paradigms. Through textual analysis of primary source material, this model is applied to classical western fields of medicine, the brain, and the mind—what is now called the medical and cognitive neurosciences, from the fifth millennia BCE to the early second millennia CE.

Hi Nandini, here is an article from the Brooklyn College website that should be of interest to you: http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/spotlite/mondaypaper/current/headline5.php

She might be someone for you to interview–Lee