Editorial Introduction: The Cases of Japan, Australia, and the United States. Issue 1 (1st December 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Nijhuis, Harry G. J.; van der Maesen, Laurent J.G.
• Is Part Of: International journal of social quality. Volume 11:Issue 1/2(2021)
• Page Start: 259
• Page End: 261
• Publication Date: 2021-12-01
• Subjects: Social policy -- Periodicals; 361.6105
• DOI: 10.3167/IJSQ.2021.11010215
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1757-0352

Abstract

Abstract : As has been extensively shown in this thematic issue, the COVID-19 pandemic has compounded many frictions and shortcomings of quite different natures in various societal fields. Moreover, many problems that has previously been latent and not easy to observe have risen to the surface. In this part, three quite diverging problematics, compounded and exposed by the COVID-19 crisis, are studied and discussed. In order to reveal general patterns, in this introduction we try to reveal what—in an ontological and epistemological sense—precisely their nature is, and how they relate to the studies in the other parts of this thematic issue.