Well-Being During the Pandemic: Comparative Perspectives from the Global North and South

這本開放存取的書籍專注於COVID-19疫情對福祉、幸福感和生活品質的影響，並考量社會不平等的中介效應。本書匯集了來自全球北方和南方國家及研究者的不同經驗和觀點。來自世界各地的專家學者分析了實證數據，揭示了與疫情相關的限制如何中斷了人們的生活和生計，以及不同社會經濟群體和階級如何受到這場危機的不同影響。各章節圍繞四個主題展開：COVID-19對主觀福祉、生活滿意度和幸福感的影響，從比較和縱向的角度進行探討；COVID-19對就業和工人福祉的影響；在COVID-19期間的社交性、公民參與和團結；以及COVID-19對兒童和青少年福祉的影響。本書參與當代有關福祉、幸福感和生活品質的理論辯論，對於從事福祉、幸福感和生活品質研究、全球及跨國研究、COVID-19的社會影響，以及社會和經濟變遷的學者而言，具有重要的參考價值。

Christian Suter is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). After receiving his PhD in sociology from the University of Zurich, he was Visiting Scholar at the Colegio de México, Visiting Professor at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, and Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Neuchâtel. He is currently doing research on social indicators and quality of life, and on globalization and world society. His earlier research has focused on social and economic inequalities and poverty, sovereign debt and global debt crises, social and political transformations in Latin America, and social support and health. He has published and edited more than 40 books and special issues, as well as many articles in international social sciences journals, encyclopedia, and volumes. His most recent book publications include The Global Politics of Census Taking (Routledge 2024), Measuring Gender Equality (Springer 2023), African-Asian Relations (LIT 2022), Measuring and Understanding Complex Phenomena (Springer 2021), The Middle Class in World Society (Routledge 2020), and Wealth(s) and Subjective Well-being (Springer 2019). He is the winner of the Book Award of the American Sociological Association, Political Economy of the World-System Section (1993) and has been awarded the Fritz Thyssen Prize for articles in social sciences journals (1998), and the Research Fellow Award from the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies for substantial contribution to quality-of-life research (2020).

Jenny Chesters is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne. Her PhD was awarded by the University of Queensland in 2009. She is currently coordinating the Capstone subject for the Master of Education and is a Chief Investigator of the Australian Research Council-funded Life Patterns project. Her recent publications include: School-to-work transition and subjective well-being in Australia (2021, British Journal of Sociology); Cross-national comparison of age and period effects on levels of subjective well-being in Australia and Switzerland during volatile economic times (2001- 2016) (2020, Social Indicators Research). She is also the editor of the Research Handbook on Transitions into Adulthood (2024, Edward Elgar) and a sub-section editor for the Child and Youth Studies Handbook, 2nd Edition (2024, Springer). Her research interests include comparative perspectives on subjective well-being, social stratification, and transitions between education and employment throughout the life course.

Sandra Fachelli is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Pablo de Olavide University, Spain. She has a post-doctorate degree in social science from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), a PhD in Sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), a diploma of Advanced Studies in sociology, as well as master's degrees in Introduction to Research in Sociology (UAB) and in Design and Management of Policies and Social Programs (FLACSO Argentina). She is teaching coordinator and professor of the master's program in Applied Social Research Techniques (TISA) co-coordinated by UAB and Barcelona University. She is currently president of the Research Committee 06 "Inequality and Social Stratification" of the Spanish Federation of Sociology (FES), collaborating researcher of the Research Group on Education and Work (GRET) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and vice-president of RC55 "Social Indicators" of the International Sociological Association. Her most recent books are Measuring Gender Equality (Springer 2023), Towards a Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities between Europe and Latin America (2021), and Perspectivas y fronteras en el estudio de la desigualdad social: movilidad social y clases sociales en tiempos de cambio (2020). Her main research areas include inequality, stratification and social mobility, higher education and work.

Christian Suter是瑞士納沙泰爾大學的社會學名譽教授。他在蘇黎世大學獲得社會學博士學位後，曾擔任墨西哥學院的訪問學者、耶拿弗里德里希-席勒大學的訪問教授、瑞士聯邦理工學院蘇黎世分校的社會學助理教授，以及納沙泰爾大學的社會學正教授。他目前的研究方向包括社會指標與生活品質，以及全球化與世界社會。他早期的研究集中於社會與經濟不平等、貧困、主權債務與全球債務危機、拉丁美洲的社會與政治變遷，以及社會支持與健康。他已出版和編輯超過40本書籍和專刊，並在國際社會科學期刊、百科全書和專輯中發表了許多文章。他最近的書籍包括《人口普查的全球政治》（Routledge 2024）、《衡量性別平等》（Springer 2023）、《非洲-亞洲關係》（LIT 2022）、《衡量與理解複雜現象》（Springer 2021）、《世界社會中的中產階級》（Routledge 2020）以及《財富與主觀幸福感》（Springer 2019）。他曾獲得美國社會學協會世界體系政治經濟學部門的書籍獎（1993），並因在社會科學期刊發表的文章獲得弗里茨·泰森獎（1998），以及國際生活品質研究學會的研究獎，以表彰他對生活品質研究的重大貢獻（2020）。

Jenny Chesters是墨爾本大學教育學院的副教授。她於2009年在昆士蘭大學獲得博士學位。她目前負責教育碩士的Capstone課程，並擔任澳大利亞研究委員會資助的生活模式項目的首席研究員。她最近的出版物包括：《澳大利亞的學校到工作過渡與主觀幸福感》（2021，《英國社會學期刊》）；《在經濟波動時期，澳大利亞和瑞士的年齡與時期效應對主觀幸福感水平的跨國比較（2001-2016）》（2020，《社會指標研究》）。她還是《成年過渡研究手冊》（2024，Edward Elgar）的編輯，以及《兒童與青少年研究手冊》第二版（2024，Springer）的子部分編輯。她的研究興趣包括主觀幸福感的比較視角、社會分層，以及整個生命過程中教育與就業之間的過渡。

Sandra Fachelli是西班牙巴勃羅·德·奧拉維德大學社會學系的副教授。她擁有布宜諾斯艾利斯大學（UBA）的社會科學博士後學位、巴薩隆納自治大學（UAB）的社會學博士學位、高級社會學研究文憑，以及社會學研究入門（UAB）和政策與社會計畫設計與管理（FLACSO阿根廷）的碩士學位。她是由UAB和巴薩隆納大學共同協調的應用社會研究技術碩士課程的教學協調員和教授。她目前是西班牙社會學聯合會（FES）研究委員會06「不平等與社會分層」的主席，巴薩隆納自治大學教育與工作研究小組（GRET）的合作研究員，以及國際社會學協會RC55「社會指標」的副主席。她最近的書籍包括《衡量性別平等》（Springer 2023）和《朝向歐洲社會不平等的比較分析》。