Help your students make connections between their own experiences of the pandemic and larger social patterns with this innovative new digital resource for undergraduate courses. Choose from 14 modules contributed by experts that explore the many facets of the societal impact of COVID-19. These modules are available to use individually, allowing instructors to add COVID-19 coverage to any course.

Our Enhanced E-book format features embedded quizzes, media resource links, and activities to facilitate a higher level of learning in students in both remote and in person learning environments.

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Demographics

A comparison of demographic COVID-19 trends across five nations illustrates how population age structure shapes national mortality rates and how COVID-19 is expected to impact birth rates, death rates, and migration patterns.

Population Change in Canada 3/e

Canada's Population in a Global Context 2/e

Population and Society 2/3

Sociology of Health

Sociology of Medicine

Social Determinants of Health

This module unpacks the social determinants of health in the COVID-19 context and assesses how the pandemic has interacted with a pre-existing health emergency: the opioid crisis.

Health, Illness, and Medicine in Canada 8/e

Social Determinants of Health 2/e

Pursuing Health and Wellness 2/e 

Second Opinion, 2/Ce

Health and Society

Race and Racism

Race and Ethnicity in Canada

This module traces the operation of settler colonialism shaping COVID-19 risk for Indigenous peoples and nations and situates pandemic anti-Asian sentiment within Canada’s history of Asian exclusion.

"Race" and Ethnicity in Canada 5/e

Racism, Colonialism, and Indigeneity in Canada : A Reader 2/e

Sociology of Work

Sociology of Labour

Sociology of Sexuality

Sociology of Gender

Gender Studies

Sociology of the body

This module demonstrates how sex workers—particularly those who are racialized, im/migrant, and Indigenous—seek autonomy and choice under the pandemic as they navigate national sex work regulations, in/access to emergency relief funds, and novel forms of sex work emerging under physical distancing and lockdown.

Gender in Canada Reader

Working in Canada

Gendering Globalization, Globalizing Gender

Crises in Canadian Work

Gender Relations in Canada 2/e

The Gendered Society 2/Ce

Sociology of the Body 2/e

Sociology of Aging

This module identifies representations of generationalism and “the elderly” within COVID-19 media coverage and analyzes systemic vulnerabilities within Canada’s long-term care system exposed by the pandemic.

Aging as a Social Process 7/e

Sociological Perspectives on Aging

Individuals and Society

Urban Sociology

This module discusses how shifts in social infrastructure during the pandemic have impacted the nature of our interactions with our communities and how we are adapting to these changes.

Urban Canada 3/e

Someone to Talk To: How Networks 

Matter in Practice

Technology and Society

This module unpacks social networks as a social determinant of health, explaining how the people around us can impact our wellbeing and global processes under COVID-19.

Technology and Society 3/e

Sociology of Science

This module situates science as a social institution informed by social processes. Lachapelle explains how social trust shapes public confidence in pandemic scientific expertise and how COVID-19 has exacerbated existing gender disparities in the production of scientific knowledge.

Sociology of Science

Economic of Sociology

Social Policy

This module critically interrogates capitalist systems before and under COVID-19 and theorizes the possibility of a future for social welfare emerging out of the pandemic.

States and Markets

Sociology of Education

This module traces school closures in Canada during the 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic and shows how the COVID-19 pandemic has further entrenched educational inequalities tied to socioeconomic status. It also demonstrates how COVID-19 has contributed to academic setbacks and explores intervention methods that can be used to offset the impact of the pandemic.

Sociology of Education 5/e

The Schooled Society 4/e

Education and Society

Sociology of Family

This module explores three processes shaping relationships under the pandemic: shifts in the division of house-hold labour, exacerbation of existing relationship problems, and an increase in family and domestic violence.

Canadian Families Today 5/e

Gender Relations 4/e

Choices and Constraints in Family Life 3/e

Sociology of the Media

This module traces how mass media and social media shaped the most digitally-mediated pandemic in human history. Rees and Lyon connect COVID-19 media to pandemic misinformation, panic and xenophobia, and the construction of deviance.

Mediated Communication and You

Mediated Society

Political Sociology

This module presents the history of quarantine at sea and how it has been tied to the consolidation of empire, militarism, citizenship, and the racial and colonial production of the nation-state. It examines how maritime law impacted ships at sea during COVID-19, from cruise ships to refugees in distress.

States and Markets

Seeing Politics Differently

Environmental Sociology

This module reminds us that COVID-19 is not the only crisis the world is facing. Santa Ono shows how the same human activities contribute to the spread of both COVID-19 (and other diseases) and climate change—and that both have unequal impacts on vulnerable communities.

Twenty Lessons in 

Environmental Sociology 3/e

Environmental Sociology in 

the Twenty-First Century

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