As a result, these classics turn out to be a teaching tool for children and a major means of shaping child culture, and consequently American culture. Viewers of Disney’s classics, which are chiefly children, are deeply affected by the gender and ethnic stereotypes encompassed in the classics. Such fact accounts for the success of Disney’s classics which have become box-office hits, garnering millions of dollars for their production company and serving as a source of inspiration for Americans. Classics such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, Mulan, Pocahontas and others, despite being inspired from universal fairy tales and folk tales, have been molded by the Disney Corporation in order to fit into the American culture. The paper then concludes by offering suggestions for using multiple paradigms in sensemaking, teaching and learning, and organizational research.From the days of its inception by Walt Disney, the Disney Company has been known for its classical films. Thus, this paper presents a fable of the aftermath of the Three Little Pigs fairy tale as a vehicle for presenting the concept of paradigms in an accessible way by relating the four paradigms as presented by Burrell and Morgan (1978) to each of the characters in the fable. We contend that a highly effective means of learning about complex phenomena are popular culture artifacts such as fables and fairy tales. Nevertheless, truly understanding and applying these four primary paradigms is challenging, so before they can be used in an integrative manner, HRD scholars need to find a means to help professionals learn about and make sense of the concept of paradigms. However, there is a growing body of research which postulates that multiple paradigms can be used to interpret organizational phenomenon (Lewis & Grimes, 1999). According to Burrell and Morgan (1978), organizational researchers use one of four paradigms: functionalist, interpretivist, radical humanist, and radical structuralist. Paradigms aid organizational researchers in their quest to find the ‘truth’ of a particular event, phenomenon, activity, or topic and by providing them a framework with which to make assumptions about the nature of society and reality.
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