TY - JOUR
T1 - Schematising COVID-19 pandemic responses
T2 - An ideal typical analysis
AU - Monaghan, Lee F.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Author
PY - 2024/5
Y1 - 2024/5
N2 - This article utilises ideal typical models, or sociological heuristics, when analysing COVID-19 pandemic responses in an international context. Axes of differentiation include Authoritarian-Libertarian and Left-Right tendencies, encapsulating four generic worldviews that potentially patterned societal responses to the novel coronavirus: (1) hierarchical, (2) dismissive or fatalistic, (3) individualistic, and (4) egalitarian. Taking the ‘shock period’ (circa 2020–2021) as the primary window of analysis, the article schematises contrasting orientations that have since left their mark in a context of COVID-19 endemicity. In conclusion, a case is made for an explicitly egalitarian and anti-authoritarian stance amidst countervailing, even fascistic, tendencies. The possibility of another politics of life is underscored given the spectre of ongoing crises in a global context.
AB - This article utilises ideal typical models, or sociological heuristics, when analysing COVID-19 pandemic responses in an international context. Axes of differentiation include Authoritarian-Libertarian and Left-Right tendencies, encapsulating four generic worldviews that potentially patterned societal responses to the novel coronavirus: (1) hierarchical, (2) dismissive or fatalistic, (3) individualistic, and (4) egalitarian. Taking the ‘shock period’ (circa 2020–2021) as the primary window of analysis, the article schematises contrasting orientations that have since left their mark in a context of COVID-19 endemicity. In conclusion, a case is made for an explicitly egalitarian and anti-authoritarian stance amidst countervailing, even fascistic, tendencies. The possibility of another politics of life is underscored given the spectre of ongoing crises in a global context.
KW - Authoritarianism
KW - COVID-19
KW - Crisis
KW - Health fascism
KW - Politics
KW - Sociology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85191290103&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116872
DO - 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116872
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85191290103
SN - 0277-9536
VL - 349
JO - Social Science and Medicine
JF - Social Science and Medicine
M1 - 116872
ER -