Senso di comunità durante il lockdown nazionale

The pandemic and the government’s harsh containment measures have rede- fined the meanings and forms of interpersonal relationships. Especially during the first national lockdown, the set of perceptions and representations associated with the relationship between self and other have undergone profound changes. To investigate this phenomenon, a telephone survey was conducted in April 2020 throughout the country. The study shows that the conceptual dimensions of the orientation to self and/or to the community have lacerated public opinion, reproposing, and updating an essential element in a country’s democratic life: the propensity to behave responsibly towards others. The sense of community that spread throughout the country in that particular period exalted the value of responsibility, helping to establish a shared normative and value horizon, and integrating, even to the point of sanctioning, the behaviour of those who refused to internalize the new social norms, thus giving priority to the needs of the community and the satisfaction of common interests and needs.

Marco Palmieri, Senso di comunità durante il lockdown nazionale in "SOCIOLOGIA E RICERCA SOCIALE " 130/2023, pp 25-51, DOI: 10.3280/SR2023-130002