GET VACCINATED AGAINST COVID-19: REFLECTIONS ON INFORMATION, PUBLIC OPINION AND SCIENCE FROM THE ITALIAN CASE

Authors

  • Matteo Finco Università degli Studi di Macerata
  • Sandra Regina Martini UniRitter

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5935/2317-2622/direitomackenzie.v15n315052

Keywords:

Covid-19, Vaccino, Italia, Opinione pubblica, Niklas Luhmann

Abstract

Seeking to provide reflections on vaccine hesitancy from a sociological
perspective, from the circulation of information regarding supposed dangers
arising from vaccines against the 2019-nCoV virus and the recurrence of
rejection and protest manifestations by the so-called “No-vax”, through the tools
provided by Niklas Luhmann’s theory of social systems. The Italian context will be
analyzed in particular, even though the vaccine issues observed appear almost
everywhere in the Western world, despite the fact that the flows Global communication
organizations are now almost completely independent, everything in
relation to national borders. A 2017 law that increased the number of mandatory
vaccines is also analyzed in the Italian case, as for some sociocultural characteristics
of this national context.

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Published

2021-12-28

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 3 (2021): Revista Direito Mackenzie

Section

Papers

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