Changes

Rather than individual scientists, the TSC focuses primarily on the behavior of 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. The TSC discerns a clear distinction between and the two levels of social organization. The relationship between them their behavior and that of a scientific community is by no means obvious. The collective behavior of communities is more lawful than that of individuals. Scientific change takes place at this the levelof the community, when a community as a whole decides to accept a new theory, or employ a new method. The This is the reason why the TSC thus takes the behavior of scientific communities, rather than individuals, as its focus of concern focuses at this level(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).