The term "prevailing paradigm" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to describe the dominant understanding or accepted theory within a particular field of study, and is often preceded by the words "the". For example: The prevalent paradigm in psychology is that mental health is heavily influenced by both internal and external factors.
Scientists typically accept a prevailing paradigm and try to extend its scope by refining theories, explaining puzzling data, and establishing more precise measures of standards and phenomena.
The unconscionably expensive quest for the Higgs boson that has recently come to fruition at Cern, for example, is a prime example of puzzle-solving because the existence of the particle was predicted by the prevailing paradigm, the so-called "standard model" of particle physics.
He's also been at the forefront of three major phases: the side-scrolling game; the free-roaming 3-D game, like Super Mario 64 and Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, to which Grand Theft Auto and its ilk owe their existence; and, with the Wii, the motion-capture game, now the prevailing paradigm.
A lot of Valley investment ploughs money into future-forward young-founders solving future-forward young-founder problems because it plays to the prevailing paradigm.
The prevailing paradigm in the economics literature is that with economic growth, as measured with an increase in GDP, there is an increase in economic inequality.
At the end of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century, the prevailing paradigm in medicine was that of etiological specificity of disease.
The prevailing paradigm in rational drug design in the last decades could be described by the creation of selective ligands that are tailored to one target.
We therefore challenge the prevailing paradigm that states that tampering is bad: we suggest that construct is overly simplistic and relevant only to certain well-defined production situations.
The prevailing paradigm of science has built itself on the precision and exactness of the pure sciences such as chemistry and physics.
However, the prevailing paradigm of somatic evolution and multi-step tumorigenesis, while useful in many instances, offers no logically coherent reason for why oncogenesis recapitulates ontogenesis.
Indeed problems of information represent a fundamental change in the prevailing paradigm within economics; they are central to understanding political economy.
