Covid-19: Volume II: Social Consequences and Cultural Adaptations

ISBN-13: 9780367695118 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 274 str.

J. Michael Ryan

Opis

This volume maps out the ways in which the pandemic has impacted (most often disproportionately) societies, the successes and failures of means used to combat the virus, and the considerations and future possibilities - both positive and negative - that lie ahead.

Spis treści

Timeline of COVID-19  1. Introduction: COVID-19: Social consequences and cultural adaptations  2. The SARS CoV-2 Virus and the COVID-19 Pandemic  PART I: INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSES  3. Rethinking What We Value: Pandemic teaching and the art of letting go  4. Disruption and Difficulty: Student and faculty perceptions of the transition to online instruction in the COVID-19 pandemic  5. Seeking Stability in Unstable Times: COVID-19 and the bureaucratic mindset  6. The Solution is the Problem: What a pandemic can reveal about policing  7. Housing as Healthcare: Mitigations of homelessness during a pandemic  8. COVID-19 and Reproductive Injustice: The implications of birthing restrictions during a pandemic  9. When Sports Stood Still: Covid-19 and the lost season  PART II: COMMUNAL CONSEQUENCES AND CULTURAL ADAPTATIONS  10. The Political Nightmare of the Plague: The ironic resistance of anti-quarantine protestors  11. Toxic Wild West Syndrome: Individual rights vs. community needs  12. Innovation Diffusion, Social Capital, and Mask Mobilization: Culture change during the COVID-19 pandemic  13. Changing Times: New sources of parenting stress and the shifting meanings of time with and for children  14. Sites of Silence: Deaf online communication in the time of Corona  15. People’s Experiences and Attitudes During the COVID-19 Outbreak in the United States of America and Poland  16. Performing Precarity in Times of Uncertainty: The implications of COVID-19 on artists in Malta  PART III: UNVEILING SOCIAL INEQUALITIES  17. Anti-Asian Racism, Responses, and the Impact on Asian-Americans’ Lives: A social-ecological perspective  18. The Impact of COVID-19 on the Lives of Sexual and Gender Minority People  19. Virus, Violence, and Vitriol: The tale of COVID-19  20. High Risk or Low Worth? A few practical and philosophical issues surrounding the isolation of high-risk senior women

O autorze

J. Michael Ryan, PhD, is associate professor of sociology at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. He has previously held academic positions in Portugal, Egypt, Ecuador, and the United States of America. Before returning to academia, Dr. Ryan worked as a research methodologist at the National Center for Health Statistics in Washington, DC. He is the editor of Trans Lives in a Globalizing World: Rights, Identities, and Politics (Routledge 2020), Core Concepts in Sociology (Wiley 2019), and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa: Contemporary Issues and Challenges (Lynne-Rienner 2020).