Touzet Hugo, Privault Sophie, Ward Jeremy K
CERMES3 (INSERM, CNRS, EHESS, Université de Paris), Villejuif, France.
PLoS One. 2025 Aug 12;20(8):e0328548. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0328548. eCollection 2025.
The Covid-19 pandemic has greatly expanded research on social determinants of health inequalities. Yet one crucial dimension remains underexplored: the influence of professional socialisation (i.e., the process through which individuals acquire not only knowledge and skills, but also a worldview and a culture associated with the profession they practice). This gap is striking given the extensive sociological evidence that professional identities profoundly shape individuals' life paths, perceptions, and health experiences. In this article, we take advantage of a very large multi-wave survey conducted in France during the Covid-19 pandemic (n > 100,000) to explore in greater depth the relationship between occupation and attitudes to vaccination and to stakeholders involved in vaccination policymaking. We show that, controlling for various socio-demographic factors, major disparities emerge, not only between broad professional groups at different places in the social hierarchy, but also between professions with comparable situations in this hierarchy. For instance, we show that public sector employees are more in favour of vaccinations but less confident in the government than their private sector counterparts. To understand these differences, we draw on the sociology of the relationship between professional socialisations and ordinary relationships to politics and the State.
新冠疫情极大地拓展了对健康不平等的社会决定因素的研究。然而，一个关键维度仍未得到充分探索：职业社会化的影响（即个体不仅获取知识和技能，还习得与他们所从事职业相关的世界观和文化的过程）。鉴于大量社会学证据表明职业身份深刻塑造个体的人生轨迹、认知和健康体验，这一差距令人震惊。在本文中，我们利用在法国新冠疫情期间进行的一项规模非常大的多轮调查（n>100,000），更深入地探究职业与对疫苗接种的态度以及与疫苗接种政策制定相关利益攸关方的态度之间的关系。我们表明，在控制各种社会人口因素后，不仅社会等级制度中不同位置的广泛职业群体之间出现了重大差异，而且在该等级制度中情况相当的职业之间也存在差异。例如，我们表明，与私营部门员工相比，公共部门员工更支持疫苗接种，但对政府的信心较低。为了理解这些差异，我们借鉴职业社会化与与政治和国家的普通关系之间关系的社会学理论。
