A Post-Pandemics Global Uncertainty
- 1 Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Abstract
Humanity is now concerned with the COVID-19 pandemics and its direct and indirect natural, social and economic consequences. This pandemic isn’t a crisis like an economic or political one. It’s a tru ly critical s ituation (hereafter the CS) with massive necessary losses in all spheres of social, economic and natural life. It couldn’t be labelled as new post-modernity of the sociobiotechnical system (hereafter the global SBT-system) in which the biosphere is rapidly transformed. Therefore, These transformations could be labelled as the emergence of all-embracing and all-penetrating uncertain global SBT-system. With the small and temporary islands of a certainty and calm way of life. But we, the researchers should look further, namely what kind of world’s order will be after the pandemics end. To my mind, the coming post-pandemics period will be burdened with growing uncertainty in all spheres of human life. The aim of the article is to analyze some key issues of this CS and its various consequences in the post-pandemic period. The methods of such study should be systemic and interdisciplinary one.
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