Sociology in Times of Pandemic: Metatheoretical Considerations and the Example of the Covid-19 Crisis

Berger, Roger; Krumpal, Ivar

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-33536-6_5

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“…In addition to producing substantial disparities in health outcomes ( Magesh et al 2021 ; Rozenfeld et al 2020 ), social and economic stratification also resulted in vastly different experiences of both structural and local conditions, including government financial relief, digital and in-person labor expectations, parenting and family care, ability to social distance, and access to social support ( Bariola and Collins 2021 ; Sy et al 2021 ; van Dorn, Cooney, and Sabin, 2020 ). Because “contagion is always a social phenomenon” ( Lupton 2022 ), sociologists employed “realist” approaches to causal analysis ( Berger and Krumpal 2021 ), while also attending to the cultural, affective, and relational dimensions of the pandemic ( Averett 2020 ).…”

Section: Pandemic Sociology: From Macro To Micromentioning

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Love in the Time of COVID-19: The Social Dimensions of Intimate Life under Lockdown

Borsa

Calleo

Faires

et al. 2023

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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Although popular media across the United States reported that the coronavirus disease 2019 COVID pandemic incited dramatic transformations in personal relationships, identities, and practices, little sociological research examines these developments. What exists elaborates the “how” and “how much” of sex, the frequency of sexual conduct, and changes in the patterning of sexual behavior. In this study of the intimate trajectories of 46 young adults, conducted during the height of U.S. quarantine restrictions in 2020 and early 2021, the authors explore the “whys” of sex. They find that the exogenous force of the pandemic profoundly altered individual relationship trajectories, prompted sexual introspection projects, shifted understandings of sexual risk, and promoted new modes of intimacy. These findings suggest that pandemic life reached deep into subjective self-understandings and ways of relating to others. They also reveal the benefits of foregrounding cultural meanings over behaviors, changes in thoughts over actions, and social processes over individual outcomes.

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