Resumen: As Rubén Blades sang, life is full of surprises. Some are experienced individually, others have a social dimension that overflows one’s own will. In the last year, 2020, with the spread of the pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, we have suffered a surprise with unusual effects and planetary scope. Routines that seemed immovable have been broken. Events of proven worldwide impact, such as the Tokyo Olympic Games, have had to be postponed. Or our own IV ISA Forum of Sociology, scheduled for July 2020, has had to be moved to February 2021, changing to a virtual format. And something similar has happened with personal projects and plans. The world’s agendas are filled with cancellations and changes. Idioma: Inglés DOI: 10.1177/0011392121994701 Año: 2021 Publicado en: CURRENT SOCIOLOGY 69, 2 (2021), 143-145 ISSN: 0011-3921 Factor impacto JCR: 2.489 (2021) Categ. JCR: SOCIOLOGY rank: 64 / 150 = 0.427 (2021) - Q2 - T2 Factor impacto CITESCORE: 3.9 - Social Sciences (Q1)