Who worries about what, when dealing with the impact of the current ?multi-crisis??
Sprache des Vortragstitels:
Englisch
Original Tagungtitel:
16th European Sociological Association (ESA) Conference
Sprache des Tagungstitel:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
Since the beginning of the century, contemporary western societies have faced and continue to face a'multi-crises', which have led to a stark increase in future pessimism in Europe. This comes to no surprise, as crises lead to an increase of perceived as well as experienced risks and uncertainties, which makes it harder to anticipate or plan for the future.
However, this trend of growing future pessimism is not evenly distributed among all members of society: Recently, case studies in Austria highlighted that, after the corona pandemic started, future pessimism was observed, particularly among financially and health-wise vulnerable groups who anticipated a deterioration in their own and the general living conditions in Austria. Nevertheless, those insights only relate to generalized fears and worries.
Thus our contribution wants to expand on this, and take a detailed look at specific recent global crises (such as military conflicts or the climate crisis), which have long-term and transnational consequences, as well as developments that may influence the daily lives of people in a more direct way, such as job security or loss of prosperity in the face of rapidly increasing living costs.
Using data from the Social Survey Austria 2023, a mixed-mode general population study (n=1200), we present which crises the Austrian population trusts to be solved and what contributes to people worrying more about global level crises or more directly experienced events.
Using the measurements gained using seven different examples for crisis, we could confirm that there is indeed a division in perception concerning macro-level global crises and micro-level directly experienced crises. In the presentation, we will go into the results of a detailed multivariate analysis, highlighting which factors contribute to those perceived risks.
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