Persuasive Essay Theorizing ( Vaccine ) Refusal, Through...

When reading over the article â€Å"Theorizing (Vaccine) Refusal: Through the Looking Glass†, the hypothesis took a lead to describe how the article was going to be. I believe that the hypothesis is that, refusal often begins well before the act, and continues on after the behavioral or the verbal decision is made. I believe that this is the hypothesis because the article is shaped around refusal and why some people may act out on refusal as their choice. Throughout this article refusal is talked about as in a way of social norms, specifically for this article the topic is vaccines. Within the reading I saw ways the author will portray to us how people think in different ways, targeting vaccines and refusal. For myself as the reader they†¦show more content†¦This would be an argument for should children be allowed into kindergarten without their vaccinations they are told to get? While reading this article only 49% of the children entering kindergarten at this school had their vaccinations and did not have a waiver stating they were cleared not to have the vaccinations. In my eyes, I think of this argument as a personal preference. If something is not contagious I do not think the school should be in charge of telling the parents what type of shots their child needs in order to enter kindergarten, again this is just how I saw this argument. Another argument that was seen was that people just do it because of a â€Å"everyone does it here† type of situation which in this case many people just went with the flow and if they heard of their friends giving their kids the vaccinations they would or vice versa also. There was a distinct method used in this article started off by being a survey. I believe this to be true because the author goes on to tell us the specific questions that were asked to gather the information that was needed. I conclude this to be a survey because there are specific questions asked that all the parents would get, whi ch were the same questions yet different answers were given amongst them all. The author had a set list of questions that were asked, but when getting the responses back from the parents