Quellen des «Querdenkertums». Eine politische Soziologie der Corona-Proteste in Baden-Württemberg

Frei, Nadine Klopfenstein; Nachtwey, Oliver

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“…These so-called health freedom movements (Hotez, 2021) started in the US as opposition to vaccination mandates but have extended to anti-vaccine protests in Western Europe (Hotez, 2020(Hotez, , 2021Hotez et al, 2021). For example, the anti-lockdown movement "Querdenken" ("lateral thinking") in Germany repeatedly spoke out against recommended vaccines and compulsory masks, basing its protest on a libertarian understanding of freedom and an emphasis on individuality (Frei & Nachtwey, 2021). Awareness about the health freedom movements and the heated debates over mandatory vaccination during the pandemic may help explain why physicians across Europe rated arguments based on reactance as a difficult challenge in consultations.…”

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“…Portugal is known for high vaccine uptake for a variety of vaccines (de Figueiredo et al, 2022), and Finland is known for traditionally high levels of population trust in institutions (Nguyen et al, 2022). Germany and France, by contrast, have been repeatedly confronted with movements and protests against vaccinations (Bergem, 2022;Frei & Nachtwey, 2021). These different contexts may also influence physicians' experiences in their practices.…”

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Difficulties faced by physicians from four European countries in rebutting anti-vaccination arguments

Holford¹,

Schmid²,

Fasce³

et al. 2023

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Physicians play a critical role in encouraging their patients to get vaccinated, in part by responding to patients' concerns about vaccines. It is therefore important to understand what difficulties physicians have in dealing with different concerns they may encounter. We investigated physicians' perceptions of difficulties in rebutting different anti-vaccination arguments from patients using data collected as part of a cross-sectional, cross-national questionnaire on physicians' vaccine attitudes and behaviours. Physicians in four European countries (Finland, Germany, France, and Portugal, total n = 2,718) rated 33 different arguments, chosen to represent 11 different psychological motivations, in terms of their perceptions of how difficult each argument would be to rebut. Across all countries, physicians perceived arguments based on religious concerns and “reactance” (i.e., resistance to perceived curbs of freedom) to be the most difficult to rebut, whereas arguments based on patients' distorted perception of the risks of disease and vaccines were perceived as the easiest. There were also between-country differences in the level of perceived difficulty of argument rebuttal. Physicians' perceived difficulty with rebutting arguments was significantly negatively correlated with their vaccine recommendation behaviours and their preparedness for vaccination discussions. Physicians may feel better equipped to counter arguments that can be rebutted with facts and evidence, but may need support to respond when arguments are motivated by more complex psychological dispositions.

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Difficulties faced by physicians from four European countries in rebutting anti-vaccination arguments

Holford¹,

Schmid²,

Fasce³

et al. 2023

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“…It might be that the five broad ideological groups in this study mask extreme camps within the two poles. For example, it could be that the alternative, esoteric parts of the new left (adherents of new age spirituality or vaccine skeptics) (Frei and Nachtwey, 2022 ) and the alt-right parts of the right (who associate with the right-wing populist FPÖ, Mellacher, 2020 ) drift away from the center, while the rest of the left and right are rather moderate concerning COVID. Indeed, this could explain our finding of a limited escalation among right-wing identifiers: while FPÖ voters oppose COVID policies (Mellacher, 2020 ), the remaining right-wing identifiers might stay less opposed.…”

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“…Similarly, Jungkunz ( 2021 ) argues that affective polarization between partisans of the German right-wing populist AfD and other parties increased substantially during the pandemic. While there might be certain segments on the left that also embraced positions against current COVID measures, for example more esoteric, new age left (Frei and Nachtwey, 2022 ), the most pronounced institutional protest certainly came from right-wing actors.…”

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Ideological polarization during a pandemic: Tracking the alignment of attitudes toward COVID containment policies and left-right self-identification

Dochow-Sondershaus

2022

Front. Sociol.

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Research on opinion polarization has focused on growing divides in positions toward political issues between the more politically and ideologically engaged parts of the population. However, it is fundamentally difficult to track the alignment process between ideological group identity and issue positions because classically controversial political issues are already strongly associated with ideological or partisan identity. This study uses the COVID pandemic as an unique opportunity to investigate polarizing trends in the population. Pandemic management policies were not a politicized issue before COVID, but became strongly contested after governments all across the world initiated policies to contain the pandemic. We use data from the Austrian Corona Panel Project (ACPP) to track trajectories in attitudes toward current COVID measures over the course of more than a year of the pandemic. We differentiate individuals by their ideological self-identity as measured by left-right self-placement. Results suggest that all ideological groups viewed the containment measures as similarly appropriate in the very beginning. However, already in the first weeks, individuals who identify as right-wing increasingly viewed the policies as too extreme, whereas centrists and left-wing identifiers viewed them as appropriate. Opinion differences between left-wing and right-wing identifiers solidified over the course of the pandemic, while centrists fluctuated between left and right self-identifiers. However, at the end of our observation period, there are signs of convergence between all groups. We discuss these findings from the perspective of theoretical models of opinion polarization and suggest that polarization dynamics are likely to stop when the political context (salience of certain issues and concrete material threats) changes.

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“…(See e.g. Frei & Nachtwey, 2021;Masengarb, 2020;Reichardt, 2021. ) The flyer focuses attention on the word 'scandalous' in the upper right-hand corner, written in white on a red background against a black-and-white image.…”

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Facemasks, material and metaphors: An analysis of socio-material dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic

Böhrer¹,

Döbler

Tarkkala

2023

The Sociological Review

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In 2020, not only did the Sars-Cov-2 virus become a global pandemic, but public life also changed in the wake of various infection control measures. Increased use of masks was one of the first clearly visible changes. With the masks came stories about masks. Who wore them, where people should wear them, and why? It quickly became clear, however, that stories about ‘the facemask’ also have a metaphorical content, negotiating not only problems of the pandemic as a social crisis, but also other social issues amalgamated through the use of masks and the surrounding narratives. Thus, masks not only prevented infection, but also fed and materialised the public imaginary of the pandemic and its challenges. From this perspective, we explore three exemplary cases from Germany and Finland in 2020 in which the mask played different roles as a socio-material phenomenon, linking theoretical perspectives on materiality and metaphors. Additionally, the analysis presents illustrations done by a visual artist. These illustrations capture the key content of the analysis in the form of drawings.

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Quellen des «Querdenkertums». Eine politische Soziologie der Corona-Proteste in Baden-Württemberg

Cited by 33 publications

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Difficulties faced by physicians from four European countries in rebutting anti-vaccination arguments

Difficulties faced by physicians from four European countries in rebutting anti-vaccination arguments

Ideological polarization during a pandemic: Tracking the alignment of attitudes toward COVID containment policies and left-right self-identification

Facemasks, material and metaphors: An analysis of socio-material dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic

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