| Basic Assumptions | Organic Paradigm | Individualistic Paradigm | Organizational Paradigm |
| Responce to Revolutions | Conservative | Liberal | Radical |
| Image of Humankind | Object | Subject | Subject-Object |
| Image of Society | Greater than the sum of its parts | Aggragate or Flux | Totality of Interested Relationships |
| Priority Principle | Culture or Collective Conscious | Self or Personality | Organizational Structure & Consciousness |
| Key Concepts | culture; norms; values; function; consensus; anomie; dysfunction | personality; self; actor; interaction; status; authority; deviation; communication; | social organization; social structure; power; class consciousness; alienation; conflict; political economy, organic composition |
| System of Logic | Deductive | Inductive | Dialectical |
| Problematic aspect of Social Life | Social Order | Adaptation | Social Change |
| Non-conforming Behavior | Social Problems | Deviance | Social Issues |
| Key People | Durkheim Parson; Merton; Davis; Coser | Weber; Mead Blumer; Goffman; Berger; Luckman | Marx Wallerstein; Adorno, Horkheimer; Habermas |
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