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CAUTHE 2007 Conference Tourism: Past Achievements, Future Challenges HOSPITALITY: A SOCIAL LENS: CHALLENGING THE EXISTING ORDER Paul Lynch University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom paul.lynch@strath.ac.uk Alison Morrison University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom ABSTRACT This paper locates developments in hospitality research, notably relating to hospitality studies, in the context of Kuhn’s (1962) evolution of scientific theory. The paper highlights the development of the ‘hospitality lens’ by Lashley, Lynch and Morrison (2007) and suggests it can facilitate the study of hospitality in any social situation from a strengthened social scientific perspective. It is argued that the study of hospitality should be not just for understanding …show more content…

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CAUTHE 2007 Conference Tourism: Past Achievements, Future Challenges make a further intellectual contribution to support a paradigm shift that is already in motion. The merits of the hospitality lens conceptual framework are considered and conclusions and implications drawn relative to the future for further hospitality subject development. SUBJECT DEVELOPMENT The raison d’etre of academia is the pursuit and creation of knowledge, uncovering the new, making novel connections, and making sense out of non-sense to develop a subject (Bourdieu, 1990; Delanty, 1997). Kuhn (1962), one of the most influential philosophers and historians of science of the twentieth century, describes this as a cyclical two mode process, alternating between ‘normal science’ and ‘scientific revolutions’. The first activity is where the majority of academics spend most of their career, predicated on a defining, consensual and shared community of values, beliefs and educational resources that tend to suppress alternative views. However, over time anomalies and internal contradictions evolve and accumulate. They cannot be evaded, subvert the existing tradition of practice, leading academics to a new, alternative set of values and beliefs. These episodes represent the ‘scientific revolutions’, overturning old order and

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