The consequences of “Covid-19”: Social poverty and structural transformation of society in post-pandemic Armenia.

The Covid-19 pandemic, with its indirect, non-biological consequences and effects, is somewhat unprecedented in modern societies, in a globalized world. All the engines and structural components of the world economies are standing. This threatens the deepening social inequality, the degeneration of the social structure of societies, the impoverishment of the masses with a whole variety of its manifestations. Non-monetary, non-material, but social poverty becomes more important here. This multidimensional phenomenon, being mostly invisible and blurred, has its deepest impact on the secure and prosperous existence of the state and its citizens. Social manifestations of social poverty include social exclusion, alienation, isolation, normlessness, social tensions, and disintegration. The spread and intensity of the mentioned are not homogeneous. Working migrants, their families, the unemployed of the tertiary sector and the youth are especially vulnerable. The aim of the research is to identify the prevalence and intensity of social poverty in those groups, to analyze the potential of overcoming the situation and of social decline of the vulnerable groups.