Ságvári, BenceKarsai, MártonKoltai, Júlia2025-03-222025-03-22202110.17356/ieejsp.v7i3.963https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/26528Publisher Copyright: © 2021,Intersections East European Journal of Society and Politics. All Rights Reserved.The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly altered many aspects of how societies function, withboth fundamental short-term and very likely long-term effects. The massive disruptions tonormal life, the introduction of social distancing measures, the dramatic reduction of in-personinteractions, and the hibernation of economic life have been collective experiences of hundredsof millions of people all over the world. Both citizens and scientists found themselvesinvolved in an unprecedented social experiment (Matthewman & Huppatz, 2020)nations havelocked down, and individuals have socially isolated for the collective good. We find ourselvesinvolved in an unprecedented social experiment. This living laboratory is ripe for sociologicalanalysis. In this introductory article, we provide a broad sociology of Covid-19, payingattention to the production of pandemics and the creation of vulnerabilities. We acknowledgethe dystopian elements of the pandemic: it will provide opportunities for ‘disaster capitalists’to profit, it will enhance certain forms of surveillance, and it will impact some constituenciesfar more negatively than others (here we pay particular attention to the pandemic’s genderedconsequences.enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociology and Political ScienceLawJournal articlehttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85123644343&partnerID=8YFLogxKSágvári, B, Karsai, M & Koltai, J 2021, 'Editorial', Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v7i3.963ORCID: /0000-0001-5382-8950/work/1671351346184786