How Does Science Fit into Society? The Fractal Model

Pages: 63 - 88
Published: Jan 1, 2020
Abstract
According to Studies of Expertise and Experience (SEE), expertise is socialisation into an expert domain. Society consists of many expert domains of different extent, some small and esoteric, some, like language, large and ubiquitous. Expert domains overlap and are embedded within each other like a fractal. Citizens possess ‘ubiquitous meta-expertise’ which enables them to choose domains when seeking expert opinions—such as whether a vaccine is...
Paper Details
Title
How Does Science Fit into Society? The Fractal Model
Published Date
Jan 1, 2020
Journal
Pages
63 - 88
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