The Social Representation of Covid-19: How Collective Opinion Influences Individual Behaviour
The Social Representation of Covid-19: How Collective Opinion Influences Individual Behaviour
Author(s): Ștefan CazanSubject(s): Social Sciences, Psychology, Sociology, Behaviorism, Social differentiation, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Scoala Nationala de Studii Politice si Administrative (SNSPA)
Keywords: coid-19; social representations; Romania; scientific knowledge; mythical knowledge;
Summary/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 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.
Journal: Perspective Politice
- Issue Year: 14/2021
- Issue No: 21
- Page Range: 15-23
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English
