Rethinking socialization for students during COVID-19: Techniques and strategies

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Nayanika Singh1 and Gurnoor Kaur Suri2 (Department of Psychology, Mahatma Gandhi State Institute of Public Administration, Sector 26, Chandigarh, Govt. of Punjab, Punjab1 and Department of Psychology Student, Sanskriti School, New Delhi2)

The inexorable pattern of physical isolation posed by the unprecedented occurrence of COVID-19 has reaped the inevitable consequence of an unparalleled system of socialization never anticipated by mankind. Prohibiting traditional means of socialization to be utilised and executed in normalcy, the pandemic posed isolation has coerced us to rethink the route to effective socialization, the cohort of the student population victimized to an escalated extent thus, essentializing the introduction of an advanced means of socialising during COVID-19, labelled as Covidalization, a term invented by Vardhan in 2020. Disassociating socialisation from its traditional sources of practice and shaping it in a state adaptive of covid norms, the present paper highlights techniques and strategies which can be effectively employed to socialise during the pandemic phase, particularly directed towards students.