Wiejskie okruchy pandemii - rok drugi przed czwartą falą
Rural Crumbs of the Pandemic: Year Two Before the Fourth Wave

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the results of the observation (carried out using various methods) of the social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in rural local communities from 1 September 2020 to 31 August 2021. It is a continuation of the observation of the effects of the first wave of the pandemic (see: Wieś i Rolnictwo/Village & Agriculture, issue 3/2020, devoted entirely to this topic). In this round of research, particular emphasis was placed on the exemplification and explanation of the reluctant or even hostile attitude towards vaccination against COVID-19 in the countryside and in some regions. However, the previously analysed topics were not abandoned: the functioning of local government in the situation of central/centralist pressures, the potential negative influence of the Catholic Church on attitudes towards vaccination, the puzzling effects on the local economy, and remote teaching with its new - also moral - problems. These observations may serve to reconstruct the functioning of the “local risk society” but they also reveal some aspects of the functioning of contemporary Polish society (e.g. the depth of social divisions).

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