Explaining Masks Disobedience Difference in the U.S. at the Beginning of COVID-19: Material, Competence, Meaning

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10.2991/assehr.k.211020.227How to use a DOI?

Keywords

the U.S, COVID-19, Theory of Practice, Three Elements of Practices: Material, Competence, Meaning, Masks habits

Abstract

Marks play an important role in every pandemic since they have shown up in human history. However, at the beginning of the COVID-19, U.S. failed to apply the wearing masks policy in time. The lack of using masks led to the spread of COVID-19 and the dramatic death numbers. To explain the unexpected situation, it is necessary to analyse the status of masks on three-dimension elements: material, competence, and meaning. This three-dimension elements analysis comes from practical theory, a realm that is appropriate and comprehensive for delineating the repercussion of lack of mask. It breaks down the dualism thought in social discussion. Besides, the perspective of practice theory reorganizes the logic of individual actors, compensating the disadvantage of the original theory. The practice theory is ground-breaking because it uses ordered social practice across space and time instead of the experience of individual actors and social totality. It breaks down the dualism thought in social discussion, setting the foundation of theory on the assumption that practice from agency and structure. This research collects statistics from the famous, wide, complete online forum Quora. This platform ensures the wideness of the information, accepting opinions from the whole American area and the whole world. By enlisting accurate and concrete information, this article will unveil the origin of the difference in mask habits and the deep reasons behind the ethical reasons of the gap between the infection rate and casualties between different ethnic groups. The theory author proposed in this article is based on authentic data, obeying the data saturation rule. The method of collecting data ensures the authenticity of information and declines the subjectivity in the analysis. This research will contribute to society by creating more background studying for the disease history study and reducing the unnecessary death caused by bad habits.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Beiqi Zhang
AU  - Qiming Liu
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/21
TI  - Explaining Masks Disobedience Difference in the U.S. at the Beginning of COVID-19: Material, Competence, Meaning
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Relations and Social Sciences (ICPRSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 618
EP  - 623
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211020.227
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