From defining science to science in practice

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What are demarcation criteria?

Criterea to set the boundry between science and pseudoscience following arguments by Kuhn, Merton and Popper. The arguments relate to the characteristics of the researcher (status, objectivity, skills), the production process (funding, quality) and the scientific knowledge (values/uncertaincies)

How is demarcation done by Popper, Merton and Kuhn?

Falsification (the ability to prove it is wrong), CUDOS (communism, universalism, disinterestedness, organized scepticism, (should)-> the sociology of science), paradigms (concept or thought pattern)

What is the largest difference between Popper and Kuhn?

Popper emphasizes the sociological facotrs,,,?
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What is Kuhns idea of science?

The disorganized and diverse activity that proceeds the formation of a science eventually becomes structured and directed (the normal science) when a single paradigm becomes adhered to by a scientific community. Inevitably difficulties and falsifications will lead to a crisis. A crisis is evolved once an entirely new paradigm emerges and attracts the allegiance of more scientists and the old paradigm is abandoned. This continues.. 

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