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The social impacts of social distancing on sociality in the context of COVID-19: Applying Simmel's concept of social geometry. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381312153\_The\_social\_impacts\_of\_social\_distancing\_on\_sociality\_in\_the\_context\_of\_COVID-19\_Applying\_Simmel's\_conce..., 2024
One of the recommended interventions against the spread of COVID-19 is ‘social distancing’. This ... more One of the recommended interventions against the spread of COVID-19 is ‘social distancing’. This means maintaining a recommended physical distance between people and reducing the number of times people come into close contact with each other. At the same time, the public is being advised to maintain or even increase social contact. Influenced by George Simmel’s concept of social geometry, the objective ofthis paper is to demonstrate that ‘social distancing’ has adverse impacts on sociality. Human beings areinherently social beings and spatial proximity enhances the intensity and quality of their interaction. Bycreating physical separation, ‘social distancing’ is leading to social isolation and attendant psycho-socialproblems. This was a desk study based on a review of the literature, media reports and personal observations. The paper presents evidence of the adverse impacts of ‘social distancing’ on human sociality from Botswana and Zimbabwe. The paper concludes that while ‘social distancing’ is a practical way of containing the spread of the COVID-19 virus, it has significant adverse impacts on sociality, resulting in the loss of community. We recommend the promotion of offline and online social media platforms to enable people to interact without co-presence.
In A. Twun –Danso Imoh and N. Ansell, “Children`s Lives in the Era of Children`s Rights: The Progress of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Africa” Routledge: London and New York., 2014
Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 2021
The article is an attempt to provide a kaleidoscopic interpretation of how social science scholar... more The article is an attempt to provide a kaleidoscopic interpretation of how social science scholarship views the socio-cultural terrain of Zimbabwe during and after the global health crisis, and the societal and business haemorrhage induced by the coronavirus (COVID-19). Built through a multi-perspective and triangulation involving a modified Delphic approach that engages archival methods involving document and literature review, content analysis and expert interpretation; the article unveils the various effects of COVID-19 on Zimbabwe. It is concluded that COVID-19 by its nature is disruptive to everyday life, restrictive to human-social relations and is an instigator to tradition, spirituality and intellectuality in the country. The challenge of the virus brings to society a deliberate consciousness that global processes and events are converging (borders are porous) while local embeddedness is being entrenched through practices like lockdowns and confinement.
The social impacts of social distancing on sociality in the context of COVID-19: Applying Simmel's concept of social geometry. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381312153\_The\_social\_impacts\_of\_social\_distancing\_on\_sociality\_in\_the\_context\_of\_COVID-19\_Applying\_Simmel's\_conce..., 2024
One of the recommended interventions against the spread of COVID-19 is ‘social distancing’. This ... more One of the recommended interventions against the spread of COVID-19 is ‘social distancing’. This means maintaining a recommended physical distance between people and reducing the number of times people come into close contact with each other. At the same time, the public is being advised to maintain or even increase social contact. Influenced by George Simmel’s concept of social geometry, the objective ofthis paper is to demonstrate that ‘social distancing’ has adverse impacts on sociality. Human beings areinherently social beings and spatial proximity enhances the intensity and quality of their interaction. Bycreating physical separation, ‘social distancing’ is leading to social isolation and attendant psycho-socialproblems. This was a desk study based on a review of the literature, media reports and personal observations. The paper presents evidence of the adverse impacts of ‘social distancing’ on human sociality from Botswana and Zimbabwe. The paper concludes that while ‘social distancing’ is a practical way of containing the spread of the COVID-19 virus, it has significant adverse impacts on sociality, resulting in the loss of community. We recommend the promotion of offline and online social media platforms to enable people to interact without co-presence.
In A. Twun –Danso Imoh and N. Ansell, “Children`s Lives in the Era of Children`s Rights: The Progress of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Africa” Routledge: London and New York., 2014
Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 2021
The article is an attempt to provide a kaleidoscopic interpretation of how social science scholar... more The article is an attempt to provide a kaleidoscopic interpretation of how social science scholarship views the socio-cultural terrain of Zimbabwe during and after the global health crisis, and the societal and business haemorrhage induced by the coronavirus (COVID-19). Built through a multi-perspective and triangulation involving a modified Delphic approach that engages archival methods involving document and literature review, content analysis and expert interpretation; the article unveils the various effects of COVID-19 on Zimbabwe. It is concluded that COVID-19 by its nature is disruptive to everyday life, restrictive to human-social relations and is an instigator to tradition, spirituality and intellectuality in the country. The challenge of the virus brings to society a deliberate consciousness that global processes and events are converging (borders are porous) while local embeddedness is being entrenched through practices like lockdowns and confinement.