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Epidemics Eroding Public Life: An Analysis on the Covid-19 Pandemic

Cilt: 17 Sayı: Pandemi Özel Sayısı 30 Nisan 2021
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Epidemics Eroding Public Life: An Analysis on the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Epidemics have several impacts on different dimensions of the social structure. First of all, epidemics bring people to change many routines in their daily life and to rearrange their lives. Discussing the impact of epidemics on social life in the context of COVID-19 will allow us to understand that this process, which seems only a medical process, actually has many social effects. This study focuses on the Covid-19 pandemic as an inducement of the rising individuality of modern man under the light of Sennett’s affirmation regarding the fall of public man. To this end, changes in consumption of goods and spaces, medicalization of daily life, the effect of the experience of lockdown during the pandemic on the self and consequently the disruption of the interaction order were analyzed. During the pandemic, the issue of individuals' retreat into their own private sphere and the growth of private life and private sphere asymmetrically in the face of public sphere and public life were addressed. As a result, the lockdowns experienced during the pandemic negatively affected the social self and the interaction order, accelerating the collapse of the public man which is a process that has been going on for a long time.

Keywords

COVID-19 , Pandemic , Public Life , Consumption , Medicalization

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Kaynak Göster

APA
Bölükbaşı, A., & Kıran, E. (2021). Epidemics Eroding Public Life: An Analysis on the Covid-19 Pandemic. OPUS International Journal of Society Researches, 17(Pandemi Özel Sayısı), 3727-3744. https://doi.org/10.26466/opus.873896