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The Social Representation of Covid-19: How Collective Opinion Influences Individual Behaviour
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Abstract The aim of this paper is to argue that people's decision to not get vaccinated against COVID- 19 - more commonly known as Coronavirus - in Romania is strongly enforced by distrust in what we would call scientific knowledge and an abnormal propensity towards mythical knowledge, regarded by many as no... view more
The aim of this paper is to argue that people's decision to not get vaccinated against COVID- 19 - more commonly known as Coronavirus - in Romania is strongly enforced by distrust in what we would call scientific knowledge and an abnormal propensity towards mythical knowledge, regarded by many as nonscientific knowledge. In the following pages, I will present some of the psycho-social arguments regarding the motives of one's choice of beliefs, the social representations that follow these motives and why the social representations that disregard scientific knowledge tend to have serious consequences on the society.... view less
Classification
Social Psychology
Free Keywords
Covid-19; Coronavirus; social representations; Romania; scientific knowledge; mythical knowledge
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 15-23
Journal
Perspective Politice, 14 (2021) 1-2
ISSN
2065-8907
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0