La pandemia COVID–19 en la depauperación socioeconómica de los habitantes del barrio Rayito de Luz, año 2021

Abstract

The present investigation called; The covid-19 pandemic in the socioeconomic impoverishment of the inhabitants of the Rayito de Luz neighborhood, year 2021, was considered as an object of study due to the population concentration and socioeconomic poverty indicators that exist in the neighborhood, which would be affected by the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic The Rayito de Luz neighborhood located in the northeast sector of the city of Machala, El Oro province, Ecuador, is a marginal urban human settlement of land invasion origin, and, therefore, created outside the planning of urban development, This is a reason that, added to the limited planning of local development by successive municipal administrations, largely explains the structural problems that its population suffers from. For this reason, this research seeks to determine the impact of the socioeconomic conditions of the inhabitants of the Rayito de Luz neighborhood of the city of Machala that has generated the advent of the covid-19 pandemic. Regarding the specific objectives, they are aimed at identifying the structural problems that have been conditioning the socioeconomic development of the Rayito de Luz neighborhood, establishing the specific aspects of the community socioeconomic development that were even more affected by the advent of the COVID pandemic. -19, identify the general manifestations that show the limited socio-economic community development aggravated by the Covid pandemic. 19 and characterize the socioeconomic poverty suffered by the inhabitants of the Rayito de Luz neighborhood, deepened by the presence of the Covid-19 pandemic. The theoretical support of the problem under study is the Structural - functionalist because it states that society is a structure, which resembles a complex system, where all the parts work together to bring about social harmony. Said Theory defines society from a macro level, where the main pillars of the theory lie in the social structures which are made up of society as a whole and alleges that society develops as an organism. The selected approach assumes hypothetical-deductive foundations, with a mixed methodological design, since quantitative instruments descriptive observation and survey and qualitative instruments semi-structured interview were used, which allowed obtaining reliable data that contributed to the correct analysis and interpretation of empirical information