Thread by @schradie, 2020 can't end soon enough, but my sociology colleagues and I @OSC

Dr. Jen Schradie

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2020 can't end soon enough, but my sociology colleagues and I @OSC_SciencesPo have been analyzing covid inequalities from this past year. We've written a year-in-review research report.
Here's the THREAD version 1/10

A Tale of Two Lockdowns
The Covid Year in France...

We have really cool data.
This year, we (E. Recchi @mirna_safi @ManuFerragina N. Sauger) leveraged the power of repeated surveys w/ the same pool of respondents from a longitudinal sample of the French population --> we have data before/after and during the two lockdowns....2/10

We were able to track self-reports of well-being, which surprisingly *went up* during the spring lockdown (albeit unequally) but are dropping as the pandemic wears on. In the early covid days, people were philosophizing and focusing on family. Now, stress levels are way up. 3/10

Women experienced lower levels of well-being than men during both lockdowns with the 2nd even worse. Gender inequalities are affecting women psychologically. This is a particularly profound finding b/c French kids have been back in daycare/school this fall unlike the U.S. 4/10

Through both 2020 lockdowns, the poor/most financially vulnerable in France reported lower levels of social well-being than the rest of the population. People who live in smaller houses had it bad too. This inequality isn't surprising but its persistence is cause for alarm 5/10

One of our most compelling findings is that people whose lives were personally touched by the Covid-19 virus (had it themselves or a family member did) not only suffered physically but psychologically as well, with lower self-reported well-being measures. 6/10

And despite the digital acceleration during the pandemic of schooling, shopping, and socializing, not to mention working, the poor remain disconnected. Those living in rural areas continue to be left behind without basic internet connections. 7/10

Despite the virtual apéros and family zoom time people initially reported in the spring, people in France reported lower levels of social connections throughout the pandemic but particularly in the latter half of the year. People were spending *less* time online to connect. 8/10

This past year, people shifted from caring more about health than the economy in the spring to now more on the economy. This is even more so among the most privileged classes, especially conservatives. This is ironic given the poor have suffered the most during the pandemic. 9/10

To access our report
A Tale of Two Lockdowns
head to https://zenodo.org/record/4383162#.X-Ik8RZ7k59

With a special shout out to 3 new scholars for amazing work on this project: Katharina Tittel, Andrew Zola, @PasqualiniMarta

Thanks @AgenceRecherche for funding this @ScPoResearch w/ @CDSP_ScPo 10/10

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