Life in Lockdown: From Crisis to Transition?
The Covid-19 health crisis and its social consequences constitute an unprecedented event in its scope, scale and the extent of its effects on social, economic, political and cultural life. By systematically articulating quantitative and qualitative approaches, the VICO survey has given itself the means to analyse "life in lockdown". After a first wave of questionnaire surveys (VICO-1, N = 16,000) carried out "on the spot" during the period of lockdown, the VICO-2 project provides for the establishment of a panel, with a campaign of in-depth interviews with a selection of participants who agreed to be recontacted, followed by a second massive wave of questionnaire distribution on the anniversary date of lockdown (VICO-3). This long-term project will make it possible to observe and analyse the short-term or long-term nature of some of the social repercussions of the pandemic. Will the crisis become a transition, or even a mutation? What short-, medium- and long-term processes are thus underway?
Three lines of research structure the general questioning:
- Living conditions and inequalities revealed by the crisis (housing, work, etc.);
- The effects of the limitations of interactions on social relations and solidarities;
- Citizen relationship to the authority of the State and the plurality of representations and practices in reaction to the injunctions made to "stay home".
These three axes define a research programme that encourages collaboration between three teams based in Aix-en-Provence, Grenoble and Toulouse respectively. Firmly committed to making data available through systematic partnerships with University Data Platforms, the VICO-2 project also envisages the use of data in the pedagogical programmes of teachers working in Sociology, Mathematics applied to Social Sciences, and Political Science.
Project Coordination
VICO-2 project leader: Claire Bidart (LEST)
Duration
October 2020 to March 2022