{"id":25876,"date":"2020-07-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2020\/09\/22\/against-the-grain-is-it-really-social-distancing\/"},"modified":"2021-01-18T15:04:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T07:04:41","slug":"against-the-grain-is-it-really-social-distancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2020\/07\/14\/against-the-grain-is-it-really-social-distancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Against the Grain: Is it really social distancing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25877\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25877\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-25877\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/09\/iStock-1213627177-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/09\/iStock-1213627177-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/09\/iStock-1213627177-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/09\/iStock-1213627177-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/09\/iStock-1213627177-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/09\/iStock-1213627177-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock\/tampatra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2018Social distancing\u2019 is a commonly used phrase in the current COVID-19 era. While the intent is to maintain physical distance and minimise social contact, the use of \u2018social distancing\u2019 could be a misnomer. In \u2018Against the Grain: Is it really social distancing\u2019, an article in <em>The Edge Malaysia<\/em>, Professor Syed Farid Alatas (NUS Sociology) distinguishes social distancing from physical distancing.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Alatas argues that social distancing actually means physical distancing. In sociology, social distance refers to \u2018a lack of social contact, regardless of physical distance or proximity\u2019. This distinction is important as our practice of physical distancing does not require social distancing. Alternative forms of social contact such as social media and video calls are examples of increasing social contact while minimising physical proximity. Therefore, Prof Alatas encourages a more critical understanding of the use of \u2018social distancing\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theedgemarkets.com\/article\/against-grain-it-really-social-distancing\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Social distancing\u2019 is a commonly used phrase in the current COVID-19 era. While the intent is to maintain physical distance and minimise social contact, the use of \u2018social distancing\u2019 could be a misnomer. In \u2018Against the Grain: Is it really social distancing\u2019, an article in The Edge Malaysia, Professor Syed Farid Alatas (NUS Sociology) distinguishes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":25877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4529],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27646,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25876\/revisions\/27646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}