Réélaboration des règles de sécurité en contextes interpersonnels : le cas du toucher en temps de Covid‑19
In this article, we study how the health safety rules relating to social touching, established during the pandemic, have been redefined with regard to interpersonal interactions. According to the adaptative safety framework, rules are theorised as resources, which are adapted in context. To better u...
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| author | Robin Héron Stéphane Safin Michael Baker Zhuoming Zhang Jessalyn Alvina Éric Lecolinet Françoise Détienne |
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| description | In this article, we study how the health safety rules relating to social touching, established during the pandemic, have been redefined with regard to interpersonal interactions. According to the adaptative safety framework, rules are theorised as resources, which are adapted in context. To better understand the processes for the re-elaboration of safety rules in interpersonal contexts, we conducted a study consisting of an online questionnaire on social touching habits before and after the lockdown, followed by in-depth interviews with selected participants. Our results highlight (1) reduced touching practices, especially for semi-intimate relationships such as colleagues, casual friends, close friends, and extended family; (2) two processes of re-elaborating pandemic-related safety rules: explicit deliberation, behavioural alignment, as well as reflexive processes; and (3) two dimensions of justifications given for the re-elaboration of those rules, preserving physical health/vulnerability concerns and maintaining social relations, and their relative weight according to the relationships (family versus friends) between the interactants. While recommended health and safety rules were mostly followed leading to large decrease in touching behaviours, it appears that people re-elaborate the rule depending on the relationship they share with one another. Through the re-elaboration of the official health and safety rules people strike a balance between safety measures in order to preserve their wellbeing and/or the relationship. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-8b0d2925369f4df0bf86bc3c0becb4af2025-08-20T02:26:41ZengAssociation Recherche et Pratique sur les ActivitésActivités1765-27232025-04-0122110.4000/13ra9Réélaboration des règles de sécurité en contextes interpersonnels : le cas du toucher en temps de Covid‑19Robin HéronStéphane SafinMichael BakerZhuoming ZhangJessalyn AlvinaÉric LecolinetFrançoise DétienneIn this article, we study how the health safety rules relating to social touching, established during the pandemic, have been redefined with regard to interpersonal interactions. According to the adaptative safety framework, rules are theorised as resources, which are adapted in context. To better understand the processes for the re-elaboration of safety rules in interpersonal contexts, we conducted a study consisting of an online questionnaire on social touching habits before and after the lockdown, followed by in-depth interviews with selected participants. Our results highlight (1) reduced touching practices, especially for semi-intimate relationships such as colleagues, casual friends, close friends, and extended family; (2) two processes of re-elaborating pandemic-related safety rules: explicit deliberation, behavioural alignment, as well as reflexive processes; and (3) two dimensions of justifications given for the re-elaboration of those rules, preserving physical health/vulnerability concerns and maintaining social relations, and their relative weight according to the relationships (family versus friends) between the interactants. While recommended health and safety rules were mostly followed leading to large decrease in touching behaviours, it appears that people re-elaborate the rule depending on the relationship they share with one another. Through the re-elaboration of the official health and safety rules people strike a balance between safety measures in order to preserve their wellbeing and/or the relationship.https://journals.openedition.org/activites/10701rulesadaptative safetysocial touchinggroundinginteractive alignment |
| spellingShingle | Robin Héron Stéphane Safin Michael Baker Zhuoming Zhang Jessalyn Alvina Éric Lecolinet Françoise Détienne Réélaboration des règles de sécurité en contextes interpersonnels : le cas du toucher en temps de Covid‑19 Activités rules adaptative safety social touching grounding interactive alignment |
| title | Réélaboration des règles de sécurité en contextes interpersonnels : le cas du toucher en temps de Covid‑19 |
| title_full | Réélaboration des règles de sécurité en contextes interpersonnels : le cas du toucher en temps de Covid‑19 |
| title_fullStr | Réélaboration des règles de sécurité en contextes interpersonnels : le cas du toucher en temps de Covid‑19 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Réélaboration des règles de sécurité en contextes interpersonnels : le cas du toucher en temps de Covid‑19 |
| title_short | Réélaboration des règles de sécurité en contextes interpersonnels : le cas du toucher en temps de Covid‑19 |
| title_sort | reelaboration des regles de securite en contextes interpersonnels le cas du toucher en temps de covid 19 |
| topic | rules adaptative safety social touching grounding interactive alignment |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/activites/10701 |
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