Changes

Rather than individual scientists, the TSC focuses primarily on the behavior of [[Scientific Community|scientific communities]]. A scientific community consists of individual scientists and their interactions with one another. Past research in the history of science has often focused on prominent individual scientists. The beliefs and decisions of individual scientists are diverse and the relationship between their behavior and that of a scientific community is by no means obvious. Scientific change takes place at the level of the community, when a community as a whole decides to accept a new theory, or employ a new method. This is the reason why the TSC focuses at this level [[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 43-52]]. It seeks distinctive historical research methods, such as the analysis of textbooks and encyclopedias, as indicators of the accepted beliefs of a scientific community [[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 113-120]].