Abstract

CANALES, Alejandro I.. Demographics of inequality and pandemic. Reflections from critical thinking in demography. Pap. poblac [online]. 2023, vol.29, n.118, pp.35-62.  Epub Feb 04, 2025. ISSN 2448-7147.  https://doi.org/10.22185/24487147.2023.118.27.

In this article, we analyze social inequality in the Covid pandemic, considering two levels. i) from the structural plane; and ii) from the level of social practices, which by involving interpersonal interactions, form the framework conducive to the spread of the virus. Our thesis is that every social practice is embedded in relations of inequality that differentially position each individual involved in them. In this sense, we use the pandemic as a social device through which we can observe how these everyday ways of spreading the virus shape everyday ways of reproducing social inequality in the face of the same virus. In this way, the critical use of the Covid-19 pandemic allows us to see, through its social modes of propagation, the practices of reproduction of social and structural inequality in societies, and the role that plays in this the processes and categories of demographic distinction of populations.

Keywords : Social inequality; Covid-19; pandemic; demographics of inequality; everyday life.

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