What will change and what will not in the Romanian post-pandemic society Cover Image

Ce se va schimba și ce nu în societatea românească post pandemic
What will change and what will not in the Romanian post-pandemic society

Author(s): Alfred Bulai
Subject(s): Electoral systems, Politics and society, Behaviorism, Health and medicine and law, Present Times (2010 - today)
Published by: Fundaţia »Societatea Civilă« (FSC)
Keywords: Social change; relative frustration; social memory; Tocqueville paradox; electoral stability; electoral stability coefficient;

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the effects of the pandemic on Romanian society and politics. In the first part of this article, I show why the changes in the Romanian society will not be as dramatic as it is suggested frequently in the public space. In this part, I appeal to various theories such as that of relative frustration, to the Tocqueville effect, to the theory of collective memory but also to the issue of comparability at the microsocial level, where protest and electoral behaviors are primarily formed. In the second part of the article, I show that deep changes can take place however in society and I present the forms of social change that can take place. I insist here on three major issues that can explain the mechanisms of social change. It is about what I call the breaking of the routine in organizations, the dilemma of missing services and the tacit accumulation of dissatisfactions.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: Sp.Is.
  • Page Range: 5-14
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian