Complex data and simple instructions

Social regulation during the Covid-19 pandemic

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2399706
AutoresSharyn Roach Anleu (0000-0002-7892-0099, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, autor correspondente), George Sarantoulias (0000-0002-1458-9245, Monash University, Clayton, Australia)
Ano2023
Volume59
Fascículo3
Páginas733-753
Data de publicação2023-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1440-7833 • E-ISSN: 1741-2978
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/14407833211066926
OpenAlexW4205596802
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas34

Responses to the Covid-19 pandemic include the generation of new norms and shifting expectations about everyday, ordinary behaviour, management of the self, and social interaction. Central to the amalgam of new norms is the way information and instructions are communicated, often in the form of simple images and icons in posters and signs that are widespread in public settings. This article combines two sociological concerns - social control and visual research - to investigate the ways social interaction is being recalibrated during the pandemic. It focuses on some of the imagery relied on in public information about the coronavirus and investigates the form and content of various signs, instructions, and notices for their normative underpinnings, their advice and directives which attempt to modify and regulate diverse activities

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Epistemology · Normative · Pandemic · Political science · Public relations · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) · Simple (philosophy) · Social control · Social science · Sociology · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Psychology · Social Psychology