Abstract
The three levels of paradigms held applicable to all knowledge communities by Thomas Kuhn are discussed, and the fourth-exemplars-deemed by Kuhn to be applicable only to natural scientific communities, is found to be of heuristic value in comprehending the paradigmatic communal life of sociologists as well. This is illustrated through the presentation of an exemplar rooted in a dialectical epistemology conditioned by a prophetic self-image consciously in dialogue with one's existential commitments and offered as a likely archetype of one of the paradigmatic modes which social research is apt to take in the 1970s. paradigm, n. 1) Gram. a) a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, esp. the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme.... 2) an example; pattern.... -Syn. 2. model, mold, ideal standard, paragon, touchstone exemplar, n. 1) a model or pattern to be copied or imitated... 2) a typical example or instance. 3) an original or archetype ... (Stein,
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