COVID-19

J. Michael Ryan, Ph.D., is an Assistant 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, D.C. He is the editor of Trans Lives in a Globalizing World: Rights, identities, and politics (2020) and Core Concepts in Sociology (2019).

Volume I: Global pandemic, societal responses, ideological solutions


Timeline of COVID-19


J. Michael Ryan





1. Introduction: COVID-19: Global pandemic, societal responses, ideological solutions


J. Michael Ryan





2. The SARS Cov-2 Virus and the COVID-19 Pandemic


J. Michael Ryan





PART I: ETHICS AND IDEOLOGIES





3. McDonaldization in the Age of COVID-19


George Ritzer





4. Theocidies of the COVID-19 Catastrophe


Bryan S. Turner





5. Necroethics in the Time of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter


Scott Schaffer





6. Ecology, Democracy, and COVID-19: Rereading and Radicalizing Karl Polanyi


Eren Duzgun





7. Heterotopia in Melanesia: Reactions to COVID-19 in Papua New Guinea


David Troolin





8. The Blessings of COVID-19 for Neoliberalism, Nationalism, and Neoconservative Ideologies


J. Michael Ryan





9. The Rise of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Decline of Global Citizenship


Atefeh Ramsari





PART II: EXACERBATING INEQUALITIES





10. Inequalities and COVID-19


Serena Nanda





11. Spotlighting Hidden Inequalities: Post-secondary education in a pandemic


Stacy L. Smith, Adam G. Sanford, Dinur Blum





12. Business as Usual: Poverty, education, and economic life amidst the pandemic


Ryan Parsons





13. Inflection Points: The intersection of COVID-19, climate change, and systemic racism


Jill Betz Bloom





PART III: CHANGING SOCIAL UNDERSTANDINGS IN RESPOSE TO CRISIS





14. Blowing Bubbles: COVID-19, New Zealand's bubble metaphor, and the limits of households as sites of responsibility and care


Susanna Trnka and Sharyn Graham Davies





15. Making the Invisible Visible: Viral cloud moments in the SARS COV-2 pandemic


Joseph A. Astorino and Anthony V. Nicola





16. Treating Loneliness in the Aftermath of a Pandemic: Threat or Opportunity?


Kelly Rhea MacArthur





17. Managing Trauma Exposure and Developing Resilience in the Midst of COVID-19


Johanna Soet Buzolits, Ann Abbey, Kate Kittredge, and Ann E.C. Smith





18. The Costs of Care: A content analysis of female nurses' media visibility and voices in the United States, China, and India during the COVID-19 pandemic


Mari A. DeWees and Amy C. Miller





19. COVID-19, the Pand(m)emic: Social media explorations from the Arab WorldNoha Fikry, Nada M. Ahmed, Malin E. Almeland-Grohn, Laila ElKoussy, Mostafa A. ElSharkawy, Farah Seifeldin, and Ahmed Ashraf Younis


Volume II: Social consequences and cultural adaptions


Timeline of COVID-19


J. Michael Ryan





1. Introduction: COVID-19: Social consequences and cultural adaptations


J. Michael Ryan





2. The SARS CoV-2 Virus and the COVID-19 Pandemic


J. Michael Ryan


PART I: INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSES





3. Rethinking What We Value: Pandemic teaching and the art of letting go


Deborah J. Cohan





4. Disruption and Difficulty: Student and faculty perceptions of the transition to online instruction in the COVID-19 pandemic


Lee Millar Bidwell, Scott T. Grether, JoEllen Pederson





5. Seeking Stability in Unstable Times: COVID-19 and the bureaucratic mindset


Adam G. Sanford, Dinur Blum, Stacy L. Smith





6. The Solution is the Problem: What a pandemic can reveal about policing


Jodie Dewey





7. Housing as Healthcare: Mitigations of homelessness during a pandemic


Kristen Desjarlais-deKlerk





8. COVID-19 and Reproductive Injustice: The implications of birthing restrictions during a pandemic


Nazneen Kane





9. When Sports Stood Still: Covid-19 and the lost season


Donna J. Barbie, John C. Lamothe, and Steven Master


PART II: COMMUNAL CONSEQUENCES AND CULTURAL ADAPTATIONS





10. The Political Nightmare of the Plague: The ironic resistance of anti-quarantine protestors


James K. Meeker





11. Toxic Wild West Syndrome: Individual rights vs. community needs


Dinur Blum, Adam G. Sanford, Stacy L. Smith





12. Innovation Diffusion, Social Capital, and Mask Mobilization: Culture change during the COVID-19 pandemic


Heather L. Mello





13. Changing Times: New sources of parenting stress and the shifting meanings of time with and for children


Melissa A. Milkie





14. Sites of Silence: Deaf online communication in the time of Corona


Marilyn Plumlee





15. People's Experiences and Attitudes During the COVID-19 Outbreak in the United States of and Poland


Magdalena Szaflarski





16. Performing Precarity in Times of Uncertainty: The implications of COVID-19 on artists in Malta


Valerie Visanich and Toni Attard


PART III: UNVEILING SOCIAL INEQUALITIES





17. Anti-Asian Racism, Responses, and the Impact on Asian-Americans' Lives: A social-ecological perspective


Pamela P. Chiang





18. The Impact of COVID-19 on the Lives of Sexual and Gender Minority People


Matthew D. Skinta, Angela H. Sun, and Daniel M. Ryu





19. Virus, Violence, and Vitriol: The tale of COVID-19


Monita H. Mungo





20. High Risk or Low Worth? A few practical and philosophical issues surrounding the isolation of high-risk senior women


Lynnette Porter