Name: <Adriana Pacheco Diaz >

Paradigm
Postitivist/Structural-
my example your example
Functionalist

“hard” problems with things:

problem working with definable,
Medicine. The doctor needs to Civil engineer. They needs to build a
domain rational, predictable objects
“use”
diagnose an illness. house.
and processes of the natural
world

working with things, doing

Collect facts about the patient
science and math, making Engineer must gather the data, carry
methodolo and their status, find the best
objective observations, out the survey, find a suitable land in
gical match with known illnesses.
measurement, experiment, terms of location and viability of the
“do” Council the patient. Prescribe
testing, re-/de-duction, soil. Then, build the house.
treatment.
replication

the world is “out there” and

knowable, exact, rational[-
ism], constants, universal
epistemolo laws, skepticism-(un)proven-
gical trust, other ways are not
“know” valid, … values: efficiency,
reliability, control of
structure, processes and
events, known or unknown
Science-based knowledge,
especially education and
experience from medical
school and practice.
Awareness of environment
provides expectations. Health
is the most valued.
Previous knowledge in geology and
building materials acquired at engineer
school. Awareness that the most
important thing is the levelling and
good division of spaces (valued
characteristics).