Terminology: "physical distancing" vs "social distancing" | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: David Jaggar (davidjaggar![]() |
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Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 13:13:30 -0700 (PDT) |
I’ve felt uncomfortable using the term “social distancing” ever since it suddenly began to have ubiquitous global usage once coronavirus became an epidemic and then a pandemic. The constructive alternative phrase that I, and now many others, have adopted is “physical distancing.” Social distance means something along the lines of the extent to which individual or groups are removed or excluded from participating in each other lives. It just seemed to me social distancing was the last thing we wanted in the context of isolation and shelter in place measures, and so on. It is on these occasions that more than ever we desire social connection. (Then, in international sociology, for example, “social distance” has a well-established more technical meaning, and is measured according to the Bogardus Social Distance Scale, as a measure of separation from other people or groups, and this meaning is searchable on the Internet for those interested.) So within community and cohousing networks and elsewhere I’d like to suggest dropping the term “social distancing” in favour of “physical distancing” or some such equivalent. David.
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