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The analysis of the overarching intellectual frameworks that govern entire disciplines within academia, dictating what questions are worth asking, what methods are legitimate, and what counts as a meaningful answer. It looks at how fields like sociology, history, or economics are defined by competing paradigms (e.g., structuralism vs. post-structuralism, cliometrics vs. narrative history). These paradigms are often invisible to those inside them, acting as the unquestioned water in which academic fish swim.
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