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Crane Brinton's 1938 The Anatomy of Revolution gave the political meaning an early systematic treatment, comparing several cases to describe a revolution as the forcible overthrow and replacement of an existing political and social order. Theda Skocpol's 1979 States and Social Revolutions is the seminal structural account, explaining such transformations through the position of states and social classes rather than the intentions of any single group. Here the referent is a historical episode in which a political order is overthrown, studied across cases, and it is distinct from a body's orbital circuit or a shift between scientific frameworks.[1][2]
Thomas Kuhn's 1962 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions coined this meaning: a scientific revolution is the episode in which one accepted framework, or paradigm, is replaced by a successor that is incommensurable with it, so that the questions a field asks and the standards it accepts change together. Such a change follows a build-up of anomalies that the older framework cannot absorb. Here the referent is a transformation in how a science is practised and understood, not a body completing an orbit or the forcible overthrow of a state, though the word was borrowed from the astronomical meaning.[3]
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