Much social science theorizing over the last decades suggests that the state is under threat,
if not actually in its death throes. In this line of assertion, the state is portrayed as an often …

This article arises from the urgent need to reflect on the current situation resulting from the
dramatic consequences of a crisis which appears to be epochal and which, as sociologists …

Modern environments and experiences cut across all boundaries of geography and
ethnicity, of class and nationality, of religion and ideology: in this sense, modernity can be …

Epidemics are times of negotiation between the individual and the collective. The British
realist novel, with its emphasis on possessive individualism, turns in the mid-nineteenth …

This article tries to understand the manifold impact the coronavirus crisis has had on social
life. Beck's 'risk society'is discussed, especially in the pandemic's transition from a risk to a …

Perhaps one of the most demanding challenges of the arrival of the COVID-19 crisis in early
2020 was the extent to which it arrived on top of a series of existing global crises. These …

This volume is an important contribution to our understanding of global pandemics in
general and Covid-19 in particular. It brings together the reflections of leading social and …

For people and governments around the world, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic
seemed to place the preservation of human life at odds with the pursuit of economic and …

The collection examines state–society relations during the COVID-19 pandemic, from
governance at the outset of the pandemic to vaccine rollouts, via a series of case studies …

Though the COVID-19 epidemic is a social disaster as much as a medical one, and though
some sociological ideas circulate in public discussions, disciplinary sociology has had little …