 | COVID-19: Cultural Change and Institutional Adaptations Subjects: Education; Health and Social Care; Development Studies Environment Social Work Urban Studies; Social Sciences; Sociology of Education; Sociology; Sociology & Social Policy; Health & Society; Sociology of Health and Illness; Social Inequality; Medical Sociology; Political Sociology; Race & Ethnic Studies; Social Class; Social Policy; Sociology of Culture; Gender Studies; COVID-19: Cultural Change and Institutional Adaptations provides critical insights into the impact of the pandemic on the relationship between cultures and institutions. The scholarship presented in this volume examines such important issues as the impact on health care workers, changes in the interaction order, linguistic access, social stigma, policing, new understandings of social class, and the role of misinformation. Brought together, these insights can help us better understand both the micro and macro changes that have been brought about by the pandemic. Drawing on the expertise of scholars from around the world, the work presented here represents remarkable diversity and quality of impassioned scholarship on the impact of COVID-19 and is a timely and critical advance in knowledge related to the pandemic. J. Michael Ryan is an award-winning teacher who has held academic positions at top-ranked universities across five continents. He is currently Associate Professor of Sociology at Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan) and has previously held academic positions in Egypt, Portugal, Ecuador, and the USA. Before returning to academia, Dr. Ryan worked as a research methodologist at the National Center for Health Statistics (which is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) in Washington, D.C. where he led an award-winning project to improve national statistical survey methodology. He is the author (with Serena Nanda) of COVID-19: Social inequalities and human possibilities (Routledge 2022) and (co-)editor of more than 15 volumes including COVID-19: Global pandemic, societal responses, ideological solutions (Routledge 2021), COVID-19: Social consequences and cultural adaptations (Routledge 2021), and Core Concepts in Sociology (Wiley 2019). He is also the founding editor of Routledge's The COVID-19 Pandemic series. |
