A cultural theory of expertise: styles of thought in attitudes, beliefs, and expectations regarding the COVID-19 pandemic

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Pellegrini, Pablo Ariel; Vilouta Rando, Nicolás
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2024
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This article aims to analyze attitudes towards the pandemic by finding correlations between them that can be used to identify different styles of thought. The research involved two surveys (with 5990 participants) conducted in Argentina during the period of isolation regulations. These surveys assessed people’s attitudes toward the pandemic, their beliefs, fears, and expectations. We can group the people surveyed into three styles of thought, represented by those who believe in a natural origin of the virus, those who believe it leaked by accident from a laboratory, and those who believe it was intentionally released, all three distributed equally among the Argentine population. An important finding of this work is how attitudes are articulated within each style of thought: each group has its own defined position regarding the inquired issues, that is, its own ideological matrix, a different opinion on vaccines, science, and the pandemic. We referred to these three styles of thought in relation to the pandemic as open-to-expertise, nihilist, and self-expertise-only. Articulating perspectives from anthropology and the sociology of knowledge, our analysis proposes a cultural theory of expertise as a model to analyze the different attitudes found in the public sphere regarding the pandemic and other debates. According to the cultural theory of expertise we propose, how people perceive expertise shapes their thoughts and influences their opinions about phenomena in which reliance on others’ knowledge is crucial.
Fil: Pellegrini, Pablo Ariel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología; Argentina
Fil: Vilouta Rando, Nicolás. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología; Argentina
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spelling A cultural theory of expertise: styles of thought in attitudes, beliefs, and expectations regarding the COVID-19 pandemicPellegrini, Pablo ArielVilouta Rando, NicolásSTYLES OF THOUGHTPANDEMICEXPERTISEATTITUDEShttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.9https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5This article aims to analyze attitudes towards the pandemic by finding correlations between them that can be used to identify different styles of thought. The research involved two surveys (with 5990 participants) conducted in Argentina during the period of isolation regulations. These surveys assessed people’s attitudes toward the pandemic, their beliefs, fears, and expectations. We can group the people surveyed into three styles of thought, represented by those who believe in a natural origin of the virus, those who believe it leaked by accident from a laboratory, and those who believe it was intentionally released, all three distributed equally among the Argentine population. An important finding of this work is how attitudes are articulated within each style of thought: each group has its own defined position regarding the inquired issues, that is, its own ideological matrix, a different opinion on vaccines, science, and the pandemic. We referred to these three styles of thought in relation to the pandemic as open-to-expertise, nihilist, and self-expertise-only. Articulating perspectives from anthropology and the sociology of knowledge, our analysis proposes a cultural theory of expertise as a model to analyze the different attitudes found in the public sphere regarding the pandemic and other debates. According to the cultural theory of expertise we propose, how people perceive expertise shapes their thoughts and influences their opinions about phenomena in which reliance on others’ knowledge is crucial.Fil: Pellegrini, Pablo Ariel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología; ArgentinaFil: Vilouta Rando, Nicolás. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología; ArgentinaSpringer2024-09info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/246651Pellegrini, Pablo Ariel; Vilouta Rando, Nicolás; A cultural theory of expertise: styles of thought in attitudes, beliefs, and expectations regarding the COVID-19 pandemic; Springer; Humanities and Social Sciences Communications; 11; 1; 9-2024; 1-102662-9992CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-024-03721-yinfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1057/s41599-024-03721-yinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-10-22T11:47:38Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/246651instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-10-22 11:47:38.418CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A cultural theory of expertise: styles of thought in attitudes, beliefs, and expectations regarding the COVID-19 pandemic
title A cultural theory of expertise: styles of thought in attitudes, beliefs, and expectations regarding the COVID-19 pandemic
spellingShingle A cultural theory of expertise: styles of thought in attitudes, beliefs, and expectations regarding the COVID-19 pandemic
Pellegrini, Pablo Ariel
STYLES OF THOUGHT
PANDEMIC
EXPERTISE
ATTITUDES
title_short A cultural theory of expertise: styles of thought in attitudes, beliefs, and expectations regarding the COVID-19 pandemic
title_full A cultural theory of expertise: styles of thought in attitudes, beliefs, and expectations regarding the COVID-19 pandemic
title_fullStr A cultural theory of expertise: styles of thought in attitudes, beliefs, and expectations regarding the COVID-19 pandemic
title_full_unstemmed A cultural theory of expertise: styles of thought in attitudes, beliefs, and expectations regarding the COVID-19 pandemic
title_sort A cultural theory of expertise: styles of thought in attitudes, beliefs, and expectations regarding the COVID-19 pandemic
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Pellegrini, Pablo Ariel
Vilouta Rando, Nicolás
author Pellegrini, Pablo Ariel
author_facet Pellegrini, Pablo Ariel
Vilouta Rando, Nicolás
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author2 Vilouta Rando, Nicolás
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv STYLES OF THOUGHT
PANDEMIC
EXPERTISE
ATTITUDES
topic STYLES OF THOUGHT
PANDEMIC
EXPERTISE
ATTITUDES
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.9
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv This article aims to analyze attitudes towards the pandemic by finding correlations between them that can be used to identify different styles of thought. The research involved two surveys (with 5990 participants) conducted in Argentina during the period of isolation regulations. These surveys assessed people’s attitudes toward the pandemic, their beliefs, fears, and expectations. We can group the people surveyed into three styles of thought, represented by those who believe in a natural origin of the virus, those who believe it leaked by accident from a laboratory, and those who believe it was intentionally released, all three distributed equally among the Argentine population. An important finding of this work is how attitudes are articulated within each style of thought: each group has its own defined position regarding the inquired issues, that is, its own ideological matrix, a different opinion on vaccines, science, and the pandemic. We referred to these three styles of thought in relation to the pandemic as open-to-expertise, nihilist, and self-expertise-only. Articulating perspectives from anthropology and the sociology of knowledge, our analysis proposes a cultural theory of expertise as a model to analyze the different attitudes found in the public sphere regarding the pandemic and other debates. According to the cultural theory of expertise we propose, how people perceive expertise shapes their thoughts and influences their opinions about phenomena in which reliance on others’ knowledge is crucial.
Fil: Pellegrini, Pablo Ariel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología; Argentina
Fil: Vilouta Rando, Nicolás. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología; Argentina
description This article aims to analyze attitudes towards the pandemic by finding correlations between them that can be used to identify different styles of thought. The research involved two surveys (with 5990 participants) conducted in Argentina during the period of isolation regulations. These surveys assessed people’s attitudes toward the pandemic, their beliefs, fears, and expectations. We can group the people surveyed into three styles of thought, represented by those who believe in a natural origin of the virus, those who believe it leaked by accident from a laboratory, and those who believe it was intentionally released, all three distributed equally among the Argentine population. An important finding of this work is how attitudes are articulated within each style of thought: each group has its own defined position regarding the inquired issues, that is, its own ideological matrix, a different opinion on vaccines, science, and the pandemic. We referred to these three styles of thought in relation to the pandemic as open-to-expertise, nihilist, and self-expertise-only. Articulating perspectives from anthropology and the sociology of knowledge, our analysis proposes a cultural theory of expertise as a model to analyze the different attitudes found in the public sphere regarding the pandemic and other debates. According to the cultural theory of expertise we propose, how people perceive expertise shapes their thoughts and influences their opinions about phenomena in which reliance on others’ knowledge is crucial.
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