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The frameworks of assumptions, values, and practices that shape how societies organize themselves, how people relate to each other, how social reality is constructed. Social Paradigms include norms, institutions, power relations, and cultural categories—all the invisible structures that make social life possible. They're what we mean when we talk about "the way things are done"—which is always just one way among many, made to seem natural by its familiarity.
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