A paradigm is a basic model of how society works — a lens. Sociologists carry three big ones, and each explains the very same topic differently. Pick a topic, then tap through the lenses to see it three ways.
Structural Functionalism
Three lensespick a topic and a paradigm
1 · Pick a topic
2 · View it through a paradigm
Three lenses, one reality. No single paradigm is the whole truth — sociologists switch lenses to catch what each one alone would miss.