Jean Hardy cites Thomas Kuhn’s work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, in which he states that there is a predominant scientific paradigm at any one time which creates a set of models about the nature of the world.  This opinion is echoed by Hardy again in her pamphlet There is Another World, but it is This One, in which she expresses Karl Mannheim’s view that ‘the main institutions in that society….will represent that dominant set of assumptions about the nature of the society and its picture of reality’.  (1988. P3.)  These predominant paradigms affect our innermost being, influencing the way in which we construct reality and make meaning of the world around us.