Social Worlds of Attitudes Towards Anti-COVID-19 Vaccination: a Multi-Sited Approach to Contextualise a European Society

Abstract

What does the balance of attitudes towards the anti-COVID-19 vaccination look like in an Eastern European Society of today? We compared what the Romanians in Romania, interviewed on the subject in the Flash Eurobarometer 494, say with what those from other European Union countries say. From the “discussion with the data” we understood that there are not only ani-vaxxers, pro-vaxxers and hesitants. Other categories matter, between them. We tried to see how much it mattered, in the pro- or anti-vaccination beliefs, not only the usual demographic conditionings of education, age, gender or residential environment, but also personal pre-pandemic vaccination experiences, as an adult, or trust in institutions relevant to the COVID-19 vaccination.