Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia
Abstract
The emergence of a new science paradigm has been identified. It is characteristically described as structuring an organic, holistic and ecological framework for understanding the nature of reality. The modern scientific paradigm with its characteristic underlying inorganic, reductive, and mechanistic vision of reality, discursively dominates Western societies\u27 cultural sense-making with its attempts to unlock the \u27mysteries\u27 of nature. The radically different characteristics of the new paradigm science is linked to \u27rising culture\u27 articulated in the exploratory social change of alternative social movements. The holistic principles and ecological values found variously in the environment, feminist, and new age/holistic health, peace and indigenous people\u27s movements link to the new paradigm. Both factual and fictional television texts engaging discursively with science, present a representational site for different cultural expression of the preferred meanings of ideology of two radically different paradigmatic frameworks
