how online behavior demonstrates psychological conflicts in emile durkheim’s collective consciousness of societies highly involved in the covid-19 pandemic

Background: according to emile durkheim’s theory, we can consider societies as having acollective consciousness. to predict the behavior of societies, it is wise to consider the mostinvolved conflicts in their collective consciousness.methods: we can use online behavior such as google searches to find an approach to whatgoes on inside the souls of societies, because when many people search for a term, it meansthat there is a conflict about that term in the collective consciousness of that society. in thisarticle, during the unprecedented situation that all countries around the globe are confrontingdue to the coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) pandemic, we sought to track the onlinebehavior of nine countries that were seriously involved.results:as human conflicts are well categorized in cloninger’s proposed planes of being, weselected search terms according to this category through conflict tables. patterns of denial,recalling the black death, anxiousness, greed, competition, and tendencies of violence werealso seen around the world. in most countries, the major findings/issues at the spiritual,intellectual, emotional, material and sexual planes were those concerning “compassion(conciliation)”, “lack of prudence”, “lack of calmness and the lack of benevolence”, and“lack of charity and lack of discretion or forethought”, respectively.conclusion: awakening each conflict can result in behaviors that concern both societiesand government. predicting these behaviors can help societies take necessary measures andinterventions. this especially lends new insights for educational systems in setting policies.