Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolution

I'm wondering if this book continues to make any sense as a reading in sociology of science and technology courses. On the one hand, it is without a doubt a classic in the field. On the other hand, it is inordinately repetitive and the field has moved far beyond this kind of structural functionalist agenda. In a way, Merton gives you more meat to deal with given the normative and institutional focus though I tend to have issues with Merton's apolitical approach. It strikes me that students are going to be more stimulated by the more science is a labor process, laboratory ethnographies, feminist epistemologies, and technological histories/controversies than paradigms, normal science, anomalies , crises and beyond.
One thing that has helped studente with Kuhn was assigning reviews that touch on different approaches to scientific revolution(s) (Hacking 1986) and the relative emphasis on paradigmatic ideas vs. technological innovations (Dyson 2003) from the New York Review of Books.

Proceedings

The purpose of this occaisonal blog will be to

1. chronicle my engagement with literature and students in sociology courses -- I am a sociology professor,
2. periodically address news of the day -- I am a left political ecologist (though exactly what that means continues to emerge), and
3. heap praise upon or rant about the St. Louis Cardinals -- I lived in St. Louis, as a very little boy, for the 1964, 1967 and 1968 World Series' and have been hooked ever since (though I am not a fan of Tony LaRussa).