CONCRETIZING SOCIAL SOLIDARITY DURING THE COVID – 19 PANDEMIC: AN EXPLORATION FOR DURKHEIMIAN MECHANICAL SOLIDARITY

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During uncertainty and an unpredictable situation like Covid-19 the intensity and degree of solidarity in society are essential and fundamentally important to hold its human dimension intact and collective. The proposed article views that social solidarity particularly 'mechanical solidarity' put forward by Emile Durkheim holds relevance even in today's modern society during the pandemic among newly "incarnated social facts" and adopted behaviors. Social distancing, physical distancing, community containment, isolation, and individualism are the notions that have been dominating the scene during the pandemic, but social solidarity is still manifesting as an existential possibility among the members of the society inviting and permitting only physical and social-'distancing' not 'social difference'. Priority of the social over the individual has been critically analyzed in the proposed article as social distancing and suspension of various human activities during the pandemic bear witness of it.