Snowflake Generation and problems caused by pandemic restrictions. An analysis starting from Constantin Noica and Max Weber

This paper aims to address, in the form of brief considerations, one aspect of the snowflake generation and some of the student issues arising from the pandemic restrictions imposed between 2020 and 2022. These aspects of social reality are approached from a philosophical (the way in which a concept is defined, Constantin Noica) and from a sociological (the comprehensive method of cognition These authors prove that we can know concepts, or social facts, if we compare them with ''something else'': with an opposite (Noica), or with an ideal-typical construction (Weber). Thus, we see that the snowflake generation “should” (ideal-typical) be characterized predominantly by an effervescent attitude to the problems of life, but they are not. Restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic have further decreased the vitality of young people in the snowflake generation, young people with the highest rates of depression and anxiety between 2020 and 2022. In this context, online learning, being a form of interaction between young people and their peers and teachers, did not reduce depression and anxiety in these young people during the COVID-19 pandemic, although it ‘should’ (ideallytypically) have reduced them.