It is well established that people who use complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) are, on the whole, more vaccine hesitant. One possible conclusion that can be drawn from this is that trusting CAM results in people becoming more vaccine hesitant. An alternative possibility is that vaccine hesitancy and use of CAM are both downstream consequences of a third factor: distrust in conventional treatments. To examine this, we measured vaccine hesitancy and CAM use in a representative sample of Spanish residents (N = 5200). We also measured their trust in three CAM interventions (acupuncture, reiki, homeopathy) and two conventional medical interventions (chemotherapy and antidepressants). Results showed that vaccine hesitancy was strongly associated with (dis)trust in conventional medicine, and this relationship was particularly strong among CAM users. In contrast, trust in CAM was a relatively weak predictor of vaccine hesitancy, and the relationship was equally weak regardless of whether or not participants themselves had a history of using CAM. The implication for practitioners and policy makers is that CAM is not necessarily a major obstacle to people's willingness to vaccinate, and that the more proximal obstacle is people's mistrust of conventional treatments.
Understanding the factors associated with vaccine scepticism is challenging because of the 'small-pockets' problem: The number of highly vaccine-sceptical people is low, and small subsamples such as these can be missed using traditional regression approaches. To overcome this problem, the current study (N = 5,200) used latent profile analysis to uncover six profiles, including two micro-communities of vaccine-sceptical people who have the potential to jeopardize vaccine-led herd immunity. The most vaccine-sceptical group (1.14%) was highly educated and expressed strong liberal tendencies. This group was also the most sceptical about genetically modified crops and nuclear energy, and most likely to receive news about science from the Internet. The second-most vaccinesceptical group (3.4%) was young, poorly educated, and politically extreme (both left and right). In resolving the small-pockets problem, the current analyses also help reconcile competing theoretical perspectives about the role of education and political ideology in shaping anti-vaccination views.Vaccines are one of the most effective population health interventions in history (Ehreth, 2003;Plotkin, 2014). Unsurprisingly, then, the majority of the public views vaccines positively (Larson, de Figueiredo, Karafillakis, & Rawal, 2018). However, it only takes a small proportion of the population to not vaccinate to undermine herd immunity and trigger public health crises. This is why anti-vaccination movements arouse so much concern, even though there are relatively few anti-vaccination advocates. Indeed, in 2019 the World Health Organization listed vaccine hesitancy as one of the top 10 threats to global health in 2019 (WHO, 2019). This urgency has intensified since, as evidence mounts of fear and resistance towards COVID-19 vaccines (Rigby, 2020;Roozenbeek et al., 2020).Gaining a nuanced, quantitative understanding of the factors associated with antivaccination attitudes is challenging because of what we refer to here as the 'small-pockets' problem: The number of people with strong anti-vaccination attitudes represents a small
Young people are mobile across Europe and transnational mobility is seen as a differentiating factor enabling them to gain personal and professional experience. While relationships are seen as important for mobility, the relevance of personal networks to young people´s thoughts of moving abroad has not received adequate attention. Specifically, different types of relationships with (non-)mobile others to whom young people are connected have not yet been studied as one origin of their thoughts of moving abroad. Grounded in quantitative data from the European H2020 project MOVE (n=5,499) we show that in addition to different aspects of unequal mobility opportunities (young people’s and parents’ socio-demographic status, prior mobility experience, country of residence, occupation) the constitution of young people’s network has a bearing on their mobility prospects. Our results show that young people´s thoughts of moving abroad differ between European countries, decrease with age, increase among students, and increase when respondents and significant others in their networks (parents, partners, friends, other relatives) have prior experience of mobility.
It is well established that people who use complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) are, on the whole, more vaccine hesitant. One possible conclusion that can be drawn from this is that trusting CAM results in people becoming more vaccine hesitant. An alternative possibility is that vaccine hesitancy and use of CAM are both downstream consequences of a third factor: distrust in conventional treatments. To examine this, we measured vaccine hesitancy and CAM use in a representative sample of Spanish residents (N = 5200). We also measured their trust in three CAM interventions (acupuncture, reiki, homeopathy) and two conventional medical interventions (chemotherapy and antidepressants). Results showed that vaccine hesitancy was strongly associated with (dis)trust in conventional medicine, and this relationship was particularly strong among CAM users. In contrast, trust in CAM was a relatively weak predictor of vaccine hesitancy, and the relationship was equally weak regardless of whether or not participants themselves had a history of using CAM. The implication for practitioners and policy makers is that CAM is not necessarily a major obstacle to people’s willingness to vaccinate, and that the more proximal obstacle is people’s mistrust of conventional treatments.
RESUMENLa empleabilidad de los graduados en sociología es sin duda una de las cuestiones que más preocupaciones genera en torno a nuestra carrera. Esta cuestión plantea asimismo dos inquietudes. Por un lado, el acceso que tienen los egresados en nuestra disciplina a los puestos de trabajo que ofrece el mercado laboral y por el otro, la relación de estos con la profesión sociológica. En este artículo se analizan los principales sectores de actividad donde desarrollan su actividad los sociólogos en España y la relación de estos trabajos con la carrera sociológica. Para ello se utiliza una encuesta a sociólogos españoles. Los análisis contemplan una situación laboral mejor que la de otras disciplinas, debido en buena medida a la diversidad de trayectorias laborales desde las que se ejerce la profesión sociológica. Esta característica muestra el potencial de adaptación de nuestra carrera al mismo tiempo que dificulta la identidad profesional. Palabras clave: empleo, desempleo, profesiones, sociología, sectores de actividad. ABSTRACT
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