Changes

[[File:Individual and group.jpg|right|500px]]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. The TSC discerns a clear distinction between the two levels of social organization. The relationship between them is by no means obvious. The collective behavior of communities is more lawful than that of individuals. Scientific change takes place at this level, when a community as a whole decides to accept a new theory, or employ a new method. The TSC thus takes the behavior of scientific communities, rather than individuals, as its focus of concern (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. community beliefs can be ascertained (Barseghyan, 2015, p. 113-120).