Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Avrasya Sosyal ve Ekonomi Araştırmaları Dergisi, cilt.8, sa.1, ss.55-75, 2021 (Hakemli Dergi)
The Covid-19 pandemic, which started at the end of 2019 and affected the whole world
throughout 2020, affects not only the health of individuals but also all dimensions of daily life
and it changes the way of individuals’ understanding. One of these changes is family-oriented.
During the pandemic, the perspective of everyone, married or single, on family relations and
the family phenomenon has started to change. In this study, we examined how single household
individuals’ family relationships changed during the Covid-19 pandemic and how they made
sense of the family phenomenon. In particular, we focus on the perceptions of the family
phenomenon and the way of understandings the family of individuals who are single, between
the ages of 25-40, and live alone. In the pandemic period when social isolation increases, the
individual becomes lonely, socialization areas and out-of-home activities are greatly reduced,
the way the individual living alone makes sense of the family institution, the effect of the
pandemic on the individual’s perspective on the family institution and the strategies developed
on this axis can be listed as the main objectives of the research. In order to achieve this, we
evaluated the data collected from 22 individuals who live solo in the light of themes by using
interpretive phenomenological analysis. In the study, we first examined the impact and
development processes of the Covid-19 pandemic. Then, we focused on the significance and
historical development of the practice of solo-living. In the method section, information about
data collection and analysis processes is given. In the last section, in the light of the data
obtained, the differences and common points of the individual’s family relations before the
Covid-19 pandemic, during and after the epidemic, and the ways of understanding the family
are presented in the axis of themes.