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Ipsos Update - January 2022
We start the year with a look at the global public’s predictions for 2022 and the latest research on the key issues ahead, including inflation, living with Covid-19, and climate change.
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Decoding the patient journey with social insights
Social insights have become a critical component of understanding patients, HCPs, and caregivers – and a key input into developing products and services that meet their needs.
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Social capital
Social capital is made up of a web of social relations that allow us to thrive – or cause us to struggle when absent. Social capital is what generates social cohesion and connectedness, and it is created through reciprocity, trust, and cooperation between and amongst individuals who make up a social unit. Access to social capital is a determinant of well-being in society.
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Materiality
Our abilities to express ourselves are intrinsically linked to our relationship with objects and things, which become symbolic of our relationships with other people and our place in society. Objects make up our living environment which in turn guides and shapes our behaviour. Materiality is a recognition of the value inherent in an object or brand; ownership infers symbolic value upon the person.
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Myth
Myths are stories created to give meaning to social order or values. They reflect the underlying human need to find patterns of order in the social world and to combat chaos and disorder. These stories as myths come to express the fears, dreams, goals, anxieties, and ambitions of societies and individuals, as well as the central ideas of the time.
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Rite of passage
A celebration, emotional experience, or transitional moment in life when an individual leaves one social group to enter another. A rite of passage involves a significant change of status in society, where the individual grows and becomes more enlightened.
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Reciprocity
Based on the experience of exchange, reciprocity relates to the practice of giving and receiving, through objects as well as gestures. Reciprocity brings the material and the emotional world into one place, placing importance on the symbolic nature of objects and the emotional expectation of exchange.
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32% say that Coronavirus is one of the biggest issues facing their country today
As Omicron spreads, Coronavirus returns to its position as the world’s top concern – with Poverty & Social Inequality just behind.
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Despite the increase in extreme climate events, citizen mobilisation for climate change is not growing
A key player in the energy sector on an international level that has committed to the goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2050, EDF presents the findings of an opinion study of groundbreaking scope conducted for the 3rd consecutive year by Ipsos in 30 countries across five continents, covering two-thirds of the world’s population and featuring the biggest CO2 producers. Every year, EDF publishes an international status report on opinions, knowledge, expectations and levels of engagement in relation to climate change, as matter for reflection and to contribute to the constructive search for solutions for the future.
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A Year in Review - 2021
What did we learn about public attitudes and behaviours? What did our research tell us about the events of the year? And how did our outlook shift?