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Dominant Social Paradigm and its Impacts on Environmental Policies in the United States

by
Venkata R Prasad Goparaju









Date: 15 October 2008
Every country has societal values and principles that are derived from and are the basic for the evolution of respective civilizations. These principles may vary in response to changing conditions and perceptions as is evident, say for instance, from the works of Smith (2003). Such values and traditions were collectively termed as ‘Dominant Social Paradigm’ by Pirages and Ehrlich in 1974 (as cited in Kilbourne, Beckmann, & Thelen, 2002). The concept was initially proposed by Kuhn in 1962 (as cited in Kilbourne et al., 2002 ). To evaluate the approach of the United States towards environmental issues, various aspects of the dominant social paradigm and their impacts should be observed.
It is necessary to observe four important concepts to identify the role of traditions and values on......

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