| 1. Just as what Engels has said, the theoretic al thinking of every era, thus the theoretical thinking of our times, is all results of history with quite different forms in different eras, therefore it includes varied contents. Since American scientific philosopher and historian T. S. Kuhn put forward the concept of paradigm and the theory of paradigm shifts in 1960s, it has kept attracting great concern from the academia. Applying paradigm as the key concept, Kuhn has described a dynamic vision of scientific development of very different tastes and interests with paradigm shifts, which was praised as a revolution of the scientific view and a milestone in the academic history. However, Kuhn's research was not derived from the scientific researcher's individual entity but from subjectivity of all the scientists, to study the scientist's (community) basic faith, world outlook, values, the revolutionary character in respects such as concept, method, tool used that is changed (paradigm shifts) to build the dynamic mode of constructing scientific development. Kuhn combined inside study (paradigm shifts) with outside study (the rise and decline of scientific community); therefore he provided his thought with the characteristics of sociology. This characteristic was not only admitted by Kuhn, but also was advocated by scientific sociologists, scientific knowledge sociologists with the rise and development with scientific sociology. So it can be said that the concept of paradigm and its theory has merged discipline thoughts such as philosophy of science, scientific sociology, and science history and so on together. It is a concept and theory that has stronger forgiving nature and explaining strength, which has already been used on different levels by the scholars of different disciplines. It is also regarded as the theory tool which can be used to analyze one's own discipline development. The paradigm theory has directive significance of theories not only in studying development and change of natural science but also in interpreting the development and change of social science.2. British scholar W.M. Shewneillarz has put forward: "Scientific research features more and more self-retrospection and self consciousness, aiming at understanding one's self" . The archive and archive work are the result of social activities and need of social management, as a general and particular social phenomenon, they imply all factors and compositions of the society. Under different circumstances during different periods, people's understanding, idea and design to the archives work are incarnated in the study of archives and the constructed theory and knowledge system. Today, different fields of science are thriving. How to use sociology theory and method, on the basis of the discipline thoughts oozing each other, to set up archive sociology, strengthen the understanding of the archive and archives work, announce its deep social factor, have already become the seeking of academic community of archives. The paradigm theory provides sociology theory an entry to explain development of archival science. It is not only applicable, but also of great help for us to explore and find academic community, gain knowledge of the building and constructing of the system to archive understanding and archive of phenomenon, proceeding from thinking of colony's entity. At the same time, it's helpful for deepening the discipline theory, expanding research field of discipline, understanding one's own production regarding the archive, gaining knowledge more deeply, thus it helps produce the energetic and real knowledge. This dissertation attempts to apply scientific sociology theory and method to the interpretation of archival science and development of its theory from the angle of Kuhn's paradigm and academic community's. It also studies theory change and knowledge system construction in the development of archival science and how these transition and construction were made under the influence of social factors; this dissertation also makes every effort to find out theoretical and logical shift of academic community in the construction of archives knowledge system and research. It is to review understanding of the archival science, to study the inherent thread of its development and change and offer theoretical explanation, and to provide knowledge for construction of archive sociology as well.3. This text includes 9 parts altogether. In the introduction part, the author mainly states the research problem, its theory choice, main concept, significance of its approach and research. The author wants to explain the significance of paradigm theory as the theory tool of scientific research especially. Because paradigm theory has a comprehensive perspective of science philosophy, scientific sociology and scientific and technological history; and it is a kind of important theory tool to explain the discipline's development as well as the development of archival science; paradigm theory is significant in developing the archive sociology. In Chapter One, "the paradigm theory and sociology value" , the author mainly makes a brief introduction to Kuhn's paradigm and paradigm shifts .He analyses the sociology value of paradigm theory and regards the research results as the example about paradigm of the disciplines such as sociology, administrative management, psychology as the example. He also states paradigm theory is applied in every social science discipline, aiming at stating its sociology properties. Paradigm theory is also applicable and feasible to the analysis of the discipline theory development of social science. In Chapter Two, "the discipline properties of archival science and the constructing of theory paradigm" , the author explains the discipline development of archival science, its properties, its double practicality, the current study of Chinese and foreign archive educational circles and the basis of constructing archival science theory paradigm. He lays particular emphasis on explaining and proving that archival science is one social science with stronger application. The research of archives science's activities has cognitive practice and social work (scientific research). Archives science can apply paradigm theory to the new explanation of its development. When analyzing the paradigm problem what educational circles of Chinese and foreign archives study, the writer propose his own regarding on the basis of the example of archival science paradigm construction. From Chapter Three to Chapter Six, the author mainly analyses the five paradigm models of archival science. They are archive historical data rectifying theory paradigm model, files management theory paradigm model, archive information resources management theory paradigm models, archive knowledge management theory paradigm models and archive social memory theory paradigm models. He also explains each paradigm model's forming, development, structural characteristics, academic orientation and academic special thoroughly, indicating each paradigm model is some members of the academic community. The author researches from different faiths and understandings what the paradigm model regards the archive, which has a different impact on the vivid and professional development of archival science. Owning to the difference from impact on discipline and eras that paradigm model produced, the writer regards archive historical data rectifying theory paradigm models, files management theory paradigm models as the traditional theory paradigm in archival science, and he regards archive information resources management theory paradigm models as contemporary mainstream paradigm of archival science. While he regards archive knowledge management theory paradigm model and archive social memory theory as front station of paradigm of archival science. In Chapter Seven, "archival science theory characteristic of paradigm", He synthesizes the understanding that the preceding chapters have studied and combines the research of the paradigm of relevant disciplines in the domain of the social sciences. He summarizes and explains the characteristic of the theory paradigm of the archive discipline, indicating his own consideration of the paradigm existing in the archive discipline nowadays. In Chapter Eight , " social reason that the theory paradigm of archival science produces and changes" , he summarizes and explains the social reason what the archive discipline paradigm produced and shifted on the whole, which is on the basis of the relevant above-mentioned paradigm background. The author tries to reflect the social origin how the theory paradigm of archival science formed and shifted.4. If we study the academic history from the perspective of paradigm, we will find a lot of valuable things. By the research of this paper, the writer reaches a conclusion as follows. (1) The application of paradigm theory to the explanation of the development and evolution of archival science theory is characterized by feasibility of theoretical analysis, explanation and academic potentiality. In the archival science theory, the paradigm theory is pluralistic coexisted and changed. The paradigm shifts of archival science shows new production (produce new theory orientation and paradigm community). It also shows the shifts of the impetus and the goals that the academic community studies (show the focus shifts). In different historical periods and social environments, the academic community embodies certain academic tendencies, which causes certain Fan in a dominant state or leading state and other fans in a recessive state or secondary state. The social change constitutes the mainstream paradigm of disciplines and the tributary Paradigm and other different discipline tributary paradigm. Adherence to pluralistic paradigm instead of single paradigm and notice of paradigm shifts with proceeding traditions is significant to the development of archival. science. (2) The development is interactively generated between the theory paradigm of archival science and archive work. The subject of science research and its object, especially applied social science has direct relation with the social activity. When the theory and practice interact with each other, there is certain consistency in colony's theory entity and colony's of practice entity. Therefore, the theory paradigm of discipline was regarded as a kind of practice paradigm or manage paradigm, which will put off or develop the paradigm theory. (3) There are deep social reasons in paradigm's formulation and transitions. That is to say each formulation of Fan has their era's background and deep social causes, such as the changes of traditional and realistic, foreign and domestic, theoretical and practical, considerate and technical, rational and irrational factors. These changes cause the transition of academic community thought and theory, thus form new Fan community and paradigm. The crisis of the theory not merely lies in the adaptability and agreement with of the society and theory, but lies more in the expectation to improve one's own social status of academic community.5. All scientific theories are the results of the times, offering the view of objective world with characteristics of different eras. With the development of the society and improvement of people's understanding of the society, people will also offer the new scientific views about the world constantly. Since 1960s and 1970s, with the rise of scientific sociology, people attach more importance to the study of scientific activity and scientific knowledge from the perspective of sociology, exploring the production of scientific knowledge and its relation with other social organizational system. The achievement is distinguished and the thought is deep. Though the author makes great efforts to use the theory and thought of scientific sociology in the paper, the research is still very superficial due to limitation of his own research ability and level. The author makes great efforts to quote a great deal of issues about the discipline theory's characteristic, the theory paradigm and inter dynamic relation between the activity of practice and the theory paradigm. The dissertation is a new research program, which is open to further study and hard exploration to give play to the imagination of sociology in the future and improvement of the academic level for contributing humble effort to archive sociology.
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