[Existential Situations during the Pandemic. The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Everyday Life and Social Sciences’ Research (Kriza Books, 49)] Járvány-lét-helyzetek. A Covid19-világjárvány hatása a mindennapokra és a társadalomkutatásra (Kriz

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[Existential Situations during the Pandemic. The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Everyday Life and Social Sciences’ Research (Kriza Books, 49)] Járvány-lét-helyzetek. A Covid19-világjárvány hatása a mindennapokra és a társadalomkutatásra (Kriz


2022 Kriza János Néprajzi Társaság – Néprajzi Múzeum

The Covid-19 pandemic is a social phenomenon, its existence depends on those individuals, communities and groups, which imagine it, describe it and create its rules. Social objects do not exist without the social acts creating them, fixing them in forms of inscriptions, neither without the mythology based on them, or the everyday practices related to them. In this context the pandemic is the result of social practice, a cultural formation. A specific situation of existence, which has a specific physiology and dynamic, which produces an experience, a sense of time different from the usual everyday life, respectively it is characterized by thematic, ideological, rhetorical, and communicational specificities. In one word: it produces a specific culture. The pandemic, as a phenomenon organizing life and producing its meanings, it infiltrates into individual and collective universes, becoming a part of local everyday routine, however it also starts the decomposing of the symbols and world concept of local communities. It revitalizes or on the contrary, changes the previous existential routines, generating specific conflicts (just think about mask wear or social distancing), resulting insecurity and the necessity of new interpretations.