What does the coronavirus pandemic reveal about power and/or structure and agency, and the enduring nature of social inequality?

 
 Those who also lost their jobs due to being unable to work from home also suffer greater economical difficulty in comparison to those who did not. This ultimately highlights that individual’s of a working social class sociological structure suffer more greatly in terms of the coronavirus pandemic.  Race also plays a part as a structure in terms of vulnerability to the coronavirus. As referred to in the article by ?Khan 2020?; ‘?More BAME people are dying from coronavirus’. BAME refers to individuals that a black, asian and minority ethnic. As referred to throughout the article, those from minority backgrounds are overrepresented by low-socioeconomic living standards and minimal access to healthcare services ?(Khan, 2020). ?This is further supported by the findings of The Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre found that 35% of almost 2,000 patients were non-white, nearly triple the 13% proportion in the population as a whole (?Booth 2020?). These findings would suggest that those of a racial minority may be more susceptible to catch the disease and possibly suffer fatality as a result of it. ?This would suggest that race as a sociological structure allows those of certain races to be subjected to a heavier impact as a result of the coronavirus pandemic 


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