NATS 1760 Study Guide - Final Guide: Kyoto Protocol, Mary Douglas, Wicked Problem

• School: York University
• Department: Natural Science
• Course: NATS 1760
• Professor: Darrin Durant

Document Summary

Melissa leach - autism & vaccination debate & parents. Beck calls for sub-politics and sometimes it is interpreted as ordinary parents preventing their children for getting vaccinated. Beck uses sub-politics as a response to a lack of control at a higher level (attempting to give the lay public the ability to make judgments b/c of a lack of certainty). Beck by stating that parental control is a form of sub-politics. With parental control the parent believes that because they can control their child they can control risks (this is the very think beck says can never be done). Often parents give up some control at the smaller level (defer to experts) because they know they cannot control the larger picture. Chabris and simons - the illusion of cause, and vaccinations. Reference case: measles outbreak in indiana 500 attendees at the church, 33 members also caught it and so did 1 hospital nurse.