Experts

10/1

Expert Claimsmakers

How is expert info used?

• political: legitimize, criticize, prolong debate

• instrumental: forecast, highlight, evaluate

• policy learning: alter beliefs

Medicalization

Authoritative knowledge

• has greater legitimacy

Social Construction of Knowledge

• recall: contextual constructionism

  • seeks a middle ground between objectivism and constructivism

  • interprets claims within their contexts

CUDOS

• communalism - freely available, open to discussion and debate

• universalism -

• disinterestedness -

• organized skepticism -

• honesty -

10/3

• The “welfare queen” trope is a good example of a cultural resource