ABSTRACT
Today sociologists frequently claim that regardless of the merits of the investigations made by logic and epistemology of science, the inquiries do not actually elucidate the all-important function of the scientific community in the establishment of theoretical matrices. Scientific development is the piecemeal process by which these items have been added to the ever growing stockpile of scientific knowledge and scientific technique. The people who started modern scientific development were actually guided by an ideal, a goal, that in their view, in principle at least, can be materialized. As they saw it, it is this goal which gives us a standard with which to evaluate the contributions made by each scientist and each group of scientists. In a period of scientific “revolution,” one or more scientists feels that certain generally accepted paradigms are either inadequate in regard to the phenomena they claim to explain, or, at least, unable to solve all the problems which can legitimately be asked.
