Activity: Talks and presentations › Guest lecturers
Description
Guest lecture presented to the academic staff at the University of Tartu, Estonia. In this guest lecture, I discussed the phenomenon of legitimation in the context of newness that permeates our lives and affects our behavior, and the role of theory building as coping mechanism. I introduced a number of factors that affect the legitimation of newness such as uncertainty, latent and manifest functions and ignorance, put forward four types of legitimation, and suggested how theory building can be employed to cope with such concerns.