CONSTRUCTIVISM IN PRACTICE? PANDEMIOSCEPTIC DISCOURSE IN THE LIGHT OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE Cover Image

KONSTRUKTYWIZM W PRAKTYCE? DYSKURS PANDEMIOSCEPTYCZNY W ŚWIETLE SOCJOLOGII WIEDZY NAUKOWEJ
CONSTRUCTIVISM IN PRACTICE? PANDEMIOSCEPTIC DISCOURSE IN THE LIGHT OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE

Author(s): Radosław Sojak, Beata Królicka
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Instytut Dyskursu i Dialogu
Keywords: constructivism; sociology of scientific knowledge; scientific controversy; COVID-19 pandemic; pandemiosceptic discourse

Summary/Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic of 2019-2022 has already received numerous analyses undertaken from various perspectives, including medical, economic and social. In our study, we tried to look at the pandemic phenomenon as a scientific controversy. We compared the argumentative structures of two discourses: (1) the constructivist sociology of scientific knowledge, formulated in the late 20th century, and (2) the pandemiosceptic discourse, formulated since 2019 by the scientific and medical communities, questioning both the pandemic itself and the legitimacy of the countermeasures taken. We found that the pandemiosceptic discourse makes use, in some part, of the arguments by chich constructivist studies of science and technology have challenged the objectivist view of science.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 1 (11)
  • Page Range: 7-29
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Polish
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