THE FEAR OF THE PANDEMIC AS A SOCIOLOGICAL MATTER

Abstract

Based on the pandemic of covid-19 in 2020, this paper analyzes the cultural role of fear in historical and sociological terms. Through critical theory’s sources, it analyzes how collective fear incites answers that associate projections of the future with fears about alterity and the past. The analysis of the fear of the pandemic tries to incorporate theoretically aspects that go beyond the purely rational and visible ones to develop a sociology nearer the emotional and fantasmatic elements of collective life.

Keywords Fear; past; alterity; pandemic; covid-19