Investigating the long-term social consequences of the Covid-19 health crisis – PANELVICO

Beyond the many victims of the Covid-19 pandemic, and beyond the upheavals observed during the health and social crisis it caused, all individuals risk being durably affected in their daily lives and social relationships by its consequences. The scientific ambition of the research is structured around a first central question: how has the health crisis affected, in the long term, the social relations between individuals, but also between them and the economic, social and political institutions they belong to? The second objective is to explore the links between these transformations of social relations on the one hand, some of which we assume will be lasting if not irreversible, and developments in a number of fundamental areas of social life on the other. For instance, how do the changes in professional practices and relations interact at work, particularly with the development of teleworking? Or, regarding cultural participation, will the current enstrangement from cultural facilities last, and can it be explained by the concentration of sociability on family relationships, to the detriment of friends? And what are the effects of these tightening and recomposition of social ties on the relationship to authority, the deterioration of which the 'yellow waistcoats' crisis had already highlighted? To answer these questions, PANELVICO will rely on a large-scale longitudinal survey, over a sufficiently long period of time, in order to observe these transformations by re-interviewing several times, by questionnaires and interviews, a panel of several thousand people surveyed since the first 2020 lockdown within the framework of an initial research currently underway, and then throughout the four years of the research.