Sociology and Criminology-Open Access
Open Access

Sociology Department, Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Kwara State, Nigeria

Publications

• Editorial   
  Socio-Cultural Consequences of Covid 19 Lockdown and Social Distancing: The Nigerian Experience
  Author(s): Ogadimma Arisukwu*
  
  The emergence of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has disrupted social norms, values, and cultural ways of social engagements and interactions among the people in a society. The lockdown and social distancing rules aimed at preventing the spread of the virus through person to person transmission has confined people to their homes. These socio-economic restrictions and isolations have altered the social life and livelihood of people. Frustrations and dissatisfactions arising from the social reality created by Covid-19 lockdown and social distancing have led to increased deviant and anti-social behaviors in society. This paper focused on some of the emergent deviant behaviors occasioned by covid-19 lockdown and social distancing in Nigeria... View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2375-4435.21.9.e112

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