Abstract
As of 18th May 2022, across the world, there have been 520,372,492 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,270,232 deaths (WHO, 2022) to tell about the impacts of the pandemic and how the global response has intensely changed people’s lives in the world. Some of the changes major changes, as well as the associated changes in impacts on the environment, can alter the dynamics of the direct interactions between humans and the nature of coronavirus infections. There may be a variety of consequences for both people and nature. The pandemic has created multi-dimensional havoc beyond the health catastrophe to create embarrassments on societies and economies at different levels. Though the influence of Corona is varying from nation to nation, it increases poverty and disparities worldwide including in India. Measuring the influences of the COVID-19 crisis on societies, economies and helpless groups is important to update and make the responses of societies to convalesce from the disaster and guarantee that no one is left in the process. Without imperative socio-economic responses, across the county grief will intensify, endangering lives and livelihoods for years to come. Instant growth answers in this disaster must be assumed with an eye to the upcoming days. The necessity to throw the lights on discussions and deliberations from a Sociological perspective is important at this juncture since the businesses are affected at a small, medium, and larger level, leading to the corresponding 400 million full-time jobs lost in terms of working hours in the entire world. Among the worst-hit are the 1.6 billion workers in the informal sector, youth, women, and differently-abled people. Particularly the women have been more affected by the COVID 19 since they are a great quantity of the laborers in sectors severely affected by Covid-19, including housing and food amenities, and in front-line occupations, such as the health and social care sectors. With the closures of schools, colleges, and other institutes of higher learning they had to take on more care tasks in the households. In this scenario, the authors highlight the impacts created by the COVID 19 on different sectors from the structural-functionalism perspectives of Sociology which emphasize that human society is inter- related and depends upon each other including the Governments, Non-Governmental Organizations, Community Based Organizations, Voluntary Sectors, Trusts, Research and Academic Institutions, Self-Help Groups including people. The theory of structural-functionalism states that each institution and its members have to contribute their best everywhere including fighting against this pandemic. There are some arguments midst functionalist forerunners which include Herbert Spencer, Talcott Parsons, and Emile Durkheim. Durkheim. Spencer proposes the network or organization works as an organ in the body with explicit capacities. Each structure has its direction, its individuality, and its job in assuring that the human body can work suitably and perfectly. In this scenario, each sector has a significant role to bring out the best in society because the world has eradicated the threatened smallpox and polio pandemics earlier in 2010 and 2014 because of the contributions made by the physicians and other health researchers
Keywords
Pandemic Functionalism Network Informal sector Frontline occupation Differently baled Human society Social care Voluntary sector Sociological perspective