| Abstrakt: |
The anti-COVID-19 restrictions and lack of face-to-face learning have increased depression and anxiety among students, alienating them from the university milieu. It can be argued that students suffered from the phenomenon of social anomie during the pandemic restrictions between 2020 and 2022. After the lifting of these restrictions in March 2022, some universities in Romania adopted blended learning, both face-to-face and online. In this context, did the partial return to face-to-face teaching reduce the anomic phenomenon that students faced during the COVID-19 pandemic? To answer this question means to observe whether students integrated into the university milieu during blended learning. Based on a sample of 130 respondents enrolled in undergraduate courses at the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work in Bucharest, it was observed that students, counter to expectations, integrated into the mixed university milieu embraced after March 2022. The inter- and intra-personal processes in J. Weidman's conceptual framework explain this. Integration was possible because students befriended their own peers, peers with whom they had only interacted online during the pandemic restrictions. Also, the satisfaction they felt at going back to the "lost" style during the COVID-19 restrictions made students feel closer to their own faculty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
