Abstract:
The article deals with the effects of the
pandemic on Romanian society and politics. In
the first part of this article, I show why the
changes in the Romanian society will not be as
dramatic as it is suggested frequently in the
public space. In this part, I appeal to various
theories such as that of relative frustration,
to the Tocqueville effect, to the theory of
collective memory but also to the issue of
comparability at the microsocial level, where
protest and electoral behaviors are primarily
formed. In the second part of the article, I
show that deep changes can take place however in
society and I present the forms of social change
that can take place. I insist here on three
major issues that can explain the mechanisms of
social change. It is about what I call the
breaking of the routine in organizations, the
dilemma of missing services and the tacit
accumulation of dissatisfactions.
Keywords:
Social
change; relative frustration; social memory;
Tocqueville paradox; electoral stability;
electoral stability coefficient