“How do you know?”: everyday negotiations of expert authority

Abstract

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Staging Expertise in Times of COVID-19: An Analysis of the Science-Policy-Society Interface in the Dutch “Intelligent Lockdown”

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“…Nyhan and Reifler 2015). Moreover, in these kinds of controversial situations, citizens refer to facts and figures just as frantically as experts do (Te Molder, 2012;Te Molder, 2014;Versteeg et al, 2018). Both phenomena suggest that the cause of disagreement does not lie in science as such; it transcends science's (fuzzy) boundaries.…”

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“…The analysis of everyday interaction can reveal common-sense and taken for granted interactional and societal norms (Garfinkel, 1967), including norms with regard to food preference. As taken for granted norms are not always consciously oriented to, they may not be reported in for example an interview or questionnaire (Versteeg, 2018).…”

“…Therefore, by studying how people orient to a construct such as food preference in the normatively organized context of everyday interaction, common-sense taken-for-granted interactional and societal norms (Garfinkel, 1967) regarding food preference could be unraveled. Such norms may not be expressed and oriented to explicitly, and may thus remain invisible in research that relies on self-reports such as interviews (Versteeg, 2018).…”