Did the Pandemic Teach us Something New about Class?
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Did the Pandemic Teach us Something New about Class? / Schultz, Nikolaj Christian Busk.
COVID-19: Cultural Change and Institutional Adaptations. ed. / J. Michael Ryan. London : Taylor & Francis, 2022. p. 58-76.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Did the Pandemic Teach us Something New about Class?
AU - Schultz, Nikolaj Christian Busk
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic not only radically transformed societies around the world but also illuminated some of their fundamental processes and lines of conflicts. One of the phenomena the pandemic made visible was the question of social inequality and class structures. The COVID-19 pandemic quickly demonstrated many well-known existing inequalities, especially along the lines of socioeconomic and racial or ethnic conditions. Besides these widely known patterns of stratifications, did COVID-19 reveal something new about the topics of inequality and class? Did COVID-19 indicate any changes in the formation of, and conflicts between, the interests and stratifications of classes? This chapter argues yes, and that such transformations point out the contours of what the author has previously called “geosocial classes,” understood as classes defined by a social group’s relations to earthly conditions of subsistence. By considering and analyzing different sorts of empirical examples from the pandemic, the goal of this chapter is thus twofold: on the one hand, to bring into play an alternative perspective for analyzing the class mechanisms of COVID-19 and, on the other hand, by doing so, strengthening the theoretical hypothesis of an emerging geosocial class landscape.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic not only radically transformed societies around the world but also illuminated some of their fundamental processes and lines of conflicts. One of the phenomena the pandemic made visible was the question of social inequality and class structures. The COVID-19 pandemic quickly demonstrated many well-known existing inequalities, especially along the lines of socioeconomic and racial or ethnic conditions. Besides these widely known patterns of stratifications, did COVID-19 reveal something new about the topics of inequality and class? Did COVID-19 indicate any changes in the formation of, and conflicts between, the interests and stratifications of classes? This chapter argues yes, and that such transformations point out the contours of what the author has previously called “geosocial classes,” understood as classes defined by a social group’s relations to earthly conditions of subsistence. By considering and analyzing different sorts of empirical examples from the pandemic, the goal of this chapter is thus twofold: on the one hand, to bring into play an alternative perspective for analyzing the class mechanisms of COVID-19 and, on the other hand, by doing so, strengthening the theoretical hypothesis of an emerging geosocial class landscape.
KW - Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet
KW - Development Studies
KW - Environment
KW - Social Work
KW - Urban Studies
KW - Education
KW - Health and Social Care
KW - Social Sciences
M3 - Bidrag til bog/antologi
SP - 58
EP - 76
BT - COVID-19
A2 - Ryan, J. Michael
PB - Taylor & Francis
CY - London
ER -
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