Geç Modern Çağda Gündelik Hayat ve Kamusal Karşılaşma: Covid-19 Salgınının Sosyolojisi Üzerine Bir Analiz * Everyday Life and Public Encountering in the Age of Late Modernity: An Analysis on the Sociology of the Covid-19 Outbreak

Epidemics are situations that ruin the functioning of the social due to their characteristics concerning the disruption of the usual pace of daily life and reshaping of human actions and social encounters. In terms of its impact, the Covid-19 global epidemic has brought about changes in a series of daily life practices, from business and working life to public encounters, from education and health services to human relations, public encounters and the organization of the society on a time-space scale, based on repetition. Everyday life is directly related to the establishment of the society depending on the repeatability of day-to-day activities as a routine of social relations and public encounters on a certain time-space scale. This study discusses how the society, which became possible as a result of the repetitive structuring of human actions with the Covid-19 epidemic, has transformed through new routines, new habits, new time-space practices and new public encounters.