"Here's Why Your Efforts to Convince Anti-Vaxxers Aren't Working" by Brooke Harrington

Selected Works of Brooke Harrington

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Here's Why Your Efforts to Convince Anti-Vaxxers Aren't Working

The Guardian (2021)

Brooke Harrington

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Abstract

This article uses the Sociology of reference groups (Merton) and fraud (Goffman) to explain vaccine and mask refusal during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords

pandemic,
COVID-19,
fraud,
Goffman,
reference groups,
Merton,
anti-vaxx,
vaccine refusal,
mask refusal

Disciplines

Medicine and Health,
Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance and
Social Psychology and Interaction

Publication Date

August 9, 2021

Citation Information

Brooke Harrington. "Here's Why Your Efforts to Convince Anti-Vaxxers Aren't Working" The Guardian (2021)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/brooke_harrington/73/