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Sociological Imagination to Responsibility: COVID-19 Calls for Reshaping Future World Order

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Future of Work and Business in Covid-19 Era

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The present paper interprets C. W. Mills’s perspective of sociological imagination on the COVID-19 pandemic. No one directly experiences Mills’s perspective in day-to-day life, and COVID-19 did it. Now, COVID-19 is not an individual or any single country problem; instead, it is a problem for every individual in the world. It has already halted all sections of people’s everyday lives, community activities, business, and institutional functions worldwide. So, it is not only individual trouble of COVID-19 patients, rather a social issue around the world, which transformed COVID-19 to become pandemic. In this context, the present paper looks into the origin of coronavirus and its roots in the history of dysfunctional and imperfect relationships with social structure. To re-establish the functional relationship with our social structure and to reshape the sustainable future world order, the paper suggests different agencies focus on the real problems of society. The agencies-individual, corporate, state, and other organizations, need to take their responsibilities while making their day-to-day choices within the social structure for sustainable world order.

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The author is thankful to the editors of the book for extending their continuous support in the publication process. The author is grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions in the original draft that helps in the quality improvement of the manuscript. The author also thanks Dr. Tanaya Mohanty and Prof. Navaneeta Rath of the Department of Sociology, Utkal University, for their constructive insights to improve the manuscript.

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    Bishnuprasad Mohapatra

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  1. School of Management, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    Rabi Narayan Subudhi

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    Sumita Mishra

  3. School of Management, BGL, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    Abu Saleh

  4. Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, PA, USA

    Dariush Khezrimotlagh

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Mohapatra, B. (2022). Sociological Imagination to Responsibility: COVID-19 Calls for Reshaping Future World Order. In: Subudhi, R.N., Mishra, S., Saleh, A., Khezrimotlagh, D. (eds) Future of Work and Business in Covid-19 Era. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0357-1_25

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