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This book presents a thorough examination of how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted social life across four major European countries—France, Germany, Italy, and the UK. Drawing on high-quality longitudinal data, it investigates how personal, work, and political lives evolved during and after the pandemic, with particular focus on inequalities based on gender, age, and socio-economic status. The book offers unique insights into both short-term disruptions and longer-term resilience in society, highlighting changes in remote work, family life, and mental health. The book will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, political science, demography, and social policy seeking to understand the pandemic’s complex social consequences.
Elias Naumann is Senior Researcher at GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and external fellow at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research. His research interests are related to political sociology, comparative political economy, welfare state preferences, and survey methodology.
Ferruccio Biolcati Rinaldi is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan, where he is a member of the spsTREND research lab. His main research interests deal with religiosity and value change.
Alita Nandi is Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, the University of Essex and the Associate Director (Outreach) for Understanding Society. She is a quantitative social scientist conducting research in the areas of ethnicity and gender, primarily examining differences in economic and subjective wellbeing and mental health..
Ettore Recchi is Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po Paris, Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS). He is also part-time professor of the Migration Policy Centre (MPC) of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence and Fellow of the Institut Convergences Migrations (Paris).
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The three acts of pandemic governance: A comparison between France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Italy.- Chapter 3: Survey design and data.- Chapter 4: Double Vulnerability? A Cross-Country Comparison of Inequalities in Health, Subjective Well Being and Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic.- Chapter 5: Gender Inequality in Unpaid Care Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Country Comparison of France, Italy and the UK.- Chapter 6: Labour markets and work during the COVID-19 pandemic: Who can and who actually works from home?.- Chapter 7: The consequences of working from home for health and well-being.- Chapter 8: Political Support and Anti-Liberal Orientations in the Pandemic Period.- Chapter 9: How COVID-19 employment protections influenced welfare attitudes: The experiences of job retention and job loss in four European countries.- Chapter 10: The odd one out – Life and death in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic.
About the author
Elias Naumann is Senior Researcher at GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and external fellow at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research. His research interests are related to political sociology, comparative political economy, welfare state preferences, and survey methodology.
Ferruccio Biolcati Rinaldi is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan, where he is a member of the spsTREND research lab. His main research interests deal with religiosity and value change.
Alita Nandi is Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, the University of Essex and the Associate Director (Outreach) for Understanding Society. She is a quantitative social scientist conducting research in the areas of ethnicity and gender, primarily examining differences in economic and subjective wellbeing and mental health..
Ettore Recchi is Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po Paris, Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS). He is also part-time professor of the Migration Policy Centre (MPC) of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence and Fellow of the Institut Convergences Migrations (Paris).
Summary
This book presents a thorough examination of how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted social life across four major European countries—France, Germany, Italy, and the UK. Drawing on high-quality longitudinal data, it investigates how personal, work, and political lives evolved during and after the pandemic, with particular focus on inequalities based on gender, age, and socio-economic status. The book offers unique insights into both short-term disruptions and longer-term resilience in society, highlighting changes in remote work, family life, and mental health. The book will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, political science, demography, and social policy seeking to understand the pandemic’s complex social consequences.
