Everyday Life AIS Scientific Board

Over the past three years, the Everyday life section of AIS (Italian Association of Sociology) has developed a reflection on the transformation of the common-sense in all areas of daily life. Seminars and conferences have been organized that have tried to shed light on the complicated relationship between the structural transformations of society that we have witnessed in recent decades and the changes in social representations, organizational practices and relational habits. However, in the very course of this process of reflection, a new dramatic challenge has changed the lives of all of us. The pandemic has, in fact, revealed and widely questioned the social, political and economic balances, both at a structural level and at a micro-social level, showing its disruptive and unavoidable transformative potential on the level of everyday life. The section then engaged in a process of reflection that would begin to collect reflections and evidence on the aspects most challenged by the crisis situation linked to the Virus regarding habits, relationships, ways of understanding the relationship between the human and non-human environment, working and leisure practices, the relationships between genders and generations, the ways of living times and spaces. It is precisely from this starting point that the proposal that we intend to support for the work of the next three years moves. In the next three years the renewed research group will undertake to work to prepare an in-depth reflection on the macro and micro-social transformations triggered by the pandemic, but above all on the consequences that the upheaval of the previous equilibrium has produced and will produce in the future in the whole society starting from the traits of daily experience and daily organization of social life. On the one hand, new social fractures have emerged based precisely on the different ways of thematising the reaction to the pandemic event, ranging from radical denial to scientific hyper-correctness. On the other hand, the risk is stressed that the COVID-19 crisis has contributed to putting some thorny issues between brackets for a certain period that, however, today could re-explode in all their complexity. It will be the goal of the board to analyze the new contours, highlighting the social spaces in which these dynamics and processes make themselves clear. Think of issues related to gender identity, migration and global security issues. The pandemic crisis has grafted onto tremendously complex problems and situations on the international chessboard, triggering potential humanitarian crises that will not fail to have consequences on social perceptions of the sense of justice.