ABSTRACT
It is clear that there are competing theories in social psychology to explain the same phenomena. To this point, I have examined the differences in assumptions and forms of these major attempts at dealing with social activity. As these systems change and compete through the years, it is rare that one convincingly demonstrates the inadequacy of the other. Kuhn (1970), of course, has dealt with this observation in his concept of paradigms of scientific thinking, but his argument has been geared principally to the natural sciences. The human sciences, particularly social psychology, as we have seen, present different problems in addition to those shared with the natural sciences.
