Social Structure Adaptation to COVID-19

Impact on Humanity
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-69025-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 672 g

Reihe: The COVID-19 Pandemic Series

Social Structure Adaptation to COVID-19 offers global, interdisciplinary perspectives that examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has altered the development trajectory of schools, public health, the workforce, and technology adoption. It explores social themes in society, economy, policy, and culture and draws on a social framework to describe key functions of societal adaptation to the pandemic.

Edited by Suresh Nanwani and William Loxley, the volume is grounded in the study of system components and their objectives to improve overall well-being given the ill effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Chapters explore interconnected social networks and how sectors restructured themselves to stabilize or transform society. International contributors from 20 countries offer case studies that highlight key themes including personal connectivity, societal equality, well-being, big data, and national resilience. They predict how impactful the pandemic might be in reshaping the future and assess how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected school system shutdown, public health collapse, business closures, public policy failure, and technology-driven social media acceleration.

Offering insights into how institutions and sectors work together in times of crisis, and how COVID-19 has restructured social behavior, Social Structure Adaptation to COVID-19 will be valuable reading for scholars and students of sociology, political science, anthropology, comparative international development, psychology, and education. It will also be of interest to policymakers concerned with education, work and organizations, and media and technology.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 international license.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nanwani, Suresh

Loxley, William

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technik: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technologie: Soziale & Ethische Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Introduction  1. Society and COVID-19  2. Identifying international essays about COVID-19  3. Awakening from a paradise lost: Experiences and lessons of the pandemic  Part II: Educational opportunity and social mobility  4. Introduction  5. Personal development in a time of crisis  6. Tails we go, heads we stay  7. Adapting to virtual education during the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru  8. The plight of virtual education in India due to COVID-19  9. COVID-19 and tertiary education: Experiences in Lesotho institutions  10. Lifelong learning as a powerful force in the post-pandemic world  Part III: Public policy and risk management  11. Introduction  12. New Zealand: Global connectivity and digital diplomacy  13. Brazil in crisis mode: Institutions in times of uncertainty  14. Legal practice in Kenya: Embracing automation and e-judiciary  15. The pandemic and post-pandemic aftershocks: Whither legal education?  16. Change and continuity: COVID-19 and the Philippine legal system  17. Digital technology: A best friend for implementing COVID-19 policy in China  18. The goldfish and the net(work)  Part IV: Diversity in workforce behavior  19. Introduction  20. Entering the workforce in the COVID-19 era  21. How a Gen Y became a Gen Z at heart  22. Unlocking from lockdown: Reframing the future through appreciative dialogue  23. COVID-19 and moving to the new normal  24. Financial literacy: Its relevance in the education curriculum  25. Self-coaching for pandemic survivors  Part V: Technology and culture  26. Introduction  27. Will technology replace or recreate humans?  28. Privacy issues in online education technologies in China  29. Digital technology during COVID-19 in global living educational theory research  30. I’m gonna let it shine: Local musicians in the Virginia countryside during the pandemic  31. Emotional and physical isolation in a Latino community  32. Braving COVID-19 through the Gross National Happiness way in Bhutan  33. A resurrection: Human connections and beyond  Part VI: Conclusion  34. Social structure adaptability to the pandemic

Über Autor(innen)

Suresh Nanwani is Professor in Practice in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University, the United Kingdom. He has more than 35 years of development work experience in international organizations, including the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He is a certified mediator with the Center for Effective Dispute Resolution, the United Kingdom, and an associate certified coach with the International Coaching Federation. He is the author of Organization and Education Development: Reflecting and Transforming in a Self-Discovery Journey (Routledge, 2021).

William Loxley is a former principal education specialist at the Asian Development Bank and executive director of the International Association for the Evaluation of Academic Achievement (IEA) headquartered in the Netherlands. He is now retired and living in the Philippines, and he maintains an advisory role in education at the above institutions. He also previously worked at the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, the Fulbright Program in Vietnam, and the Peace Corps in the Philippines.