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Beyond the Disease: The Socioeconomic Drama of the Covid-19 Pandemic

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This chapter aims to highlight the sociological and emotional effects of COVID-19. The pandemic generated several hardships, above all, everyone experienced social exclusion. Certainly, it was a condition as forced as it was necessary, useful to contain the contagion and its consequences. However, it has generated a drastic change in the lives of all, young and old, toward the expansion of skills for the use of technology. Although this aspect, at first glance, might seem to be a positive element, as more and more people use technology, unfortunately, it has turned out to be a negative aspect, as it has pushed more and more people to self-exclude themselves from social dynamics, something that could negatively affect the development of empathy connoted in this scenario as a feeling according to which people perceive themselves as the only ones to face the world with their fears, leading to take opposite attitudes to what is the true power of empathy. Therefore, this chapter will follow a transdisciplinary aspect, approaching the topic from both sociological and psychological perspectives to provide a clear and broad socio-psychological framework.

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  1. Department of Political and Social Studies, Sociology, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy

    Vincenzo Auriemma

  2. Milton Erickson Association, Crotone, Italy

    Domenico Cafaro

  3. Department of Developmental and Socialization Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

    Arianna Pelati

  4. Department of Human Sciences, Society and Health, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio of Cassino, Cassino, Italy

    Valeria Saladino

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Auriemma, V., Cafaro, D., Pelati, A., Saladino, V. (2023). Beyond the Disease: The Socioeconomic Drama of the Covid-19 Pandemic. In: Liamputtong, P. (eds) Handbook of Social Sciences and Global Public Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96778-9_74-1

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