Author(s) / Editor(s):

 Olena Zlobina, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Professor, Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
email: ezlobina1951@gmail.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2593-788X

Year: 2025

Pages: 7–16

Publication language: Ukrainian

Publisher: Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Type of Publication: chapter in edited volume

Publication Place: Kyiv

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/book8.978-617-14-0292-8.01

Abstract: The specifics of constructing social reality in conditions of extreme forms of social instability and uncertainty, prolonged exposure to existential threats, are determined. The process of influencing social expectations on the construction of interactions in a situation of high social instability is conceptualized based on the fact that in moments of crisis, the unpredictability of the future is not absolute, but variable. The performativity of social expectations helps actors temporarily ignore the uncertainty of the future, distinguish some future scenarios as more likely or more attractive than others, and imply obligations regarding specific future possibilities. War causes a generalization and a certain unification of social expectations, which ultimately focus on the point of cessation of the destruction of everyday life; therefore, the temporal aspect of expectations is conceptualized through the markers “before the war”, “during the war” and “after the war”.