The social landscape after the pandemic crisis in Southern European societies

Teresa Consoli; Manuel Fernández-Esquinas; Apostolos G. Papadopoulos

doi:10.22325/fes/res.2022.127

Autores/as

Teresa Consoli Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Catania
Manuel Fernández-Esquinas Joint Research Unit on Knowledge Transfer and Innovation, CSIC/University of Córdoba; Institute for Advanced Social Studies, CSIC
Apostolos G. Papadopoulos Institute of Social Research (ISR), National Centre for Social Research (EKKE); Department of Geography, Harokopio University, Athens

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22325/fes/res.2022.127

Palabras clave:

Sur de Europa, COVID-19, crisis pandémica, impacto social, grupos vulnerables

Resumen

La pandemia del COVID 19 es una de las grandes encrucijadas críticas de nuestro tiempo. Desde las ciencias sociales, y desde la sociología en particular, se están haciendo numerosos esfuerzos para entender cómo la crisis evoluciona y vislumbrar lo que el futuro nos depara. Los impactos han sido muy desiguales en áreas geográficas, sectores de actividad y colectivos sociales.

Este monográfico está dedicado a estudiar los efectos sociales de la pandemia en los países y regiones del sur de Europa, focalizando en el “panorama social” que emerge en torno a una serie de problemas distintivos en nuestro entorno. La hipótesis de fondo de este editorial, y de los trabajos que se presentan, es que las condiciones socioeconómicas, las relaciones sociales y las instituciones moldean el impacto social de la crisis pandémica, al igual que la capacidad de reacción de las políticas públicas y la resiliencia de la ciudadanía.

Las sociedades del sur de Europa son un lugar estratégico para observar estos efectos debido a su peculiar configuración social. Los cinco artículos del monográfico analizan en detalle el desempleo oculto en grupos vulnerables, las emociones expresadas a través de las redes sociales, los efectos y reacciones en trabajos poco formalizados, la salud durante el confinamiento y la capacidad de innovación social en la educación de los niños pequeños. Las contribuciones, algunas de ellas comparativas entre varios países, otras focalizadas en países y regiones, proporcionan algunas claves para entender el significado social de la pandemia y muestran peculiaridades de las sociedades del sur de Europa que merecen ser estudiadas.

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