Problem of social identity and method (hermeneutics) in changing view of science

This thesis was prepared by begining the road on the assuption that when the scientific paradigm changes the patterns of self-statements(identity) also change. Khun, who systematically uses the concept of paradigm, claims that scientific paradigm is exposed to radical changes within some studies and broken away from the previous studies. When this break takes place, it is not limited with the scientific area, but it could show itself in the various areas of the life. For example, due to the fact that the Newton physics dominiant world and the Einsteinian physics dominiant world are not the same the views of people about the world will be different: While one of the them think about the existence of universal knowlege, the other feel the self-realization of relativity and probability. In the this case, one side will imagine a strictly determined community and look for the consensus within this strictness, the other side will tend to provide the consensus of the community by putting the fictitiousness forward with a relativist manner. There seems to be a parallelism between paradigma and identity because the most important element on which the consenus depends is the identification pattern of people. The most important tool to use in bringing the paralelism of identity and paradigm is also the method which that paradigma uses. With its broad meaning this method covers epistemology and ontologhy too. Identity of the positivizm created by its views about knowledge and existence must be consistent. Otherwise there could be an identity problem. The reason of this could be seen in258 the desire of human in being away from paradox and being consistent. The same situation is valid for the other paradigms brought out with the critism of positivism. In the thesis the similar comments can be made for holistic paradigm which has been taken as a alternative to the positivism, and for convenient identity for it. Undoubtedly this identity, which could be builded by looking at the method consistent with the holistic paradigm, will be more different than national identity which equals to the positivism, but will cover it too. The reason of this is that while not crowding out the positivist method the holistic one accept it and includes new methods (senstitivity and interpretetion ect) which are excluded by the positivist methods. In our time the parallelism of science and identity is going to be a solution for the identity crisis which many people mention. An identity crisis argumant is developed whether human who is in a continous conflict-consensus-conflict cycle in the infront of the innovations will go toward equilibrium. So it has been claimed that there is possibility of crisis, but there must be an disequilibirum case in order to show a anormal case. Identity policies have risen become popupar in the gloabalized world. In additon it has been said that these identities have increased the power of some groups who desire to control the world. But the following must not be escapted from the eye: New different identities constitutes an important opposite power against this hegemonic powers. The important this is how this potential will be evaluated.