Katastrofa i kontrola niepewności. Pytania i hipotezy z socjologii dyskursu katastrofy
Catastrophe and uncertainty control. Questions and hypotheses from the sociology of the catastrophe discourse

Summary/Abstract: Global fear and hope invariably characterize collective and individual attitudes towards historically numerous plagues. The Covid-19 pandemic is one of them. Its descriptions, scientific and popular, had numerous social determinants. The study of their discourses is the task of sociology. In such approaches, the main undertaking is the analysis of the forms and content of the dominant medical, public, and cultural discourses. The conclusions are that changes in disease states from potentially lethal outcomes are also socially determinable to an extent that is determinable and controllable at their level of significance. This hypothesis is strongly cultural. It says that societies with high cultural capital have a better chance of being saved. The only question is what its structure guarantees success.

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