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This chapter conceptualises the Covid-19 pandemic through the notions of social change and crisis. To do so, relevant definitions and theorisations for each concept have been employed and discussed against current literature on Covid-19. We argue that Covid-19 constitutes a social (as well as political, economic and historical) change which has been approached through its radical as well as gradual transformations effecting both macro and microsystems. Those transformations have been of such magnitude that this pandemic has also been depicted in terms of a global crisis which has disrupted continuity in various ways on both personal and social levels causing fearful frustration albeit also offering hopeful opportunities. Despite the fatal aftermath of this global crisis, most people have managed to survive it and some of them have even managed to excel through it.

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  • 09 February 2023

    The book was inadvertently published with an incorrect spelling of the author’s name as Anathasia Chalari. The correct name Athanasia Chalari has been updated.

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Chalari, A., Koutantou, E.E. (2022). Social Change and Crisis. In: Psycho-Social Approaches to the Covid-19 Pandemic. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07831-6_2

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