COVID-19: Cultural Change and Institutional Adaptations

<p><em>COVID-19: Cultural Change and Institutional Adaptations</em> provides critical insights into the impact of the pandemic on the relationship between cultures and institutions.</p><p>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 macrochanges that have been brought about by the pandemic.</p><p>Drawing on the expertise of scholars from around the world, the work presented here represents a 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. </p> <p>1. Introduction 2. COVID-19, Cultural Changes, and Institutional Adaptations 3. The Importance of Culture in Understanding the COVID-19 Pandemic 4. COVID-19 and Transformations of the Interaction Order: Erosion, patternization, and de-ritualization of social interactions 5. Did the Pandemic Teach us Something New about Class?: COVID-19 as an experiment in ‘geo-social class’ interests 6. Linguistic Access, Belonging, and Symbolic Power during the COVID-19 Pandemic 7. Halting the Process: COVID-19 disrupting migrant women's empowerment 8. Health Care Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A comparative USA-Poland analysis 9. COVID-19 and the Contagion of Social Stigma: Evidence from India 10. The Fast and Slow Violence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Asians in the USA 11. "My Body, My Choice!": COVID-19 misinformation consumers as a counterculture 12. Resisting Rules, Challenging Cops: Dilemmas of pandemic policing in a state of emergency 13. The World Health Organization and COVID-19: Testing the international health regulations in a global pandemic</p>