Answer to Question #232114 in Sociology for Leagola

Question

• Apply the Marx's metabolic rift and Weber's rationalisation to analyse and explain the nature of COVID-19 related pollution and indicate how this is similar to other types of environmental pollution. How would this affect vulnerable groups?

Answer 1

The COVID-19 pandemic is far-off from a purely normal incidence. The nature of Covid-19 believe to originate from wild animals bat to human beings. The metabolic rift explains the fundamental shift in relation between human species and the rest. With this there was shift of the corona virus from the mammals to human beings thus the rise of Covid-19 in human beings. This will affect the vulnerable group as they mainly hunt and consume these mammals thus high probability of infecting with these type of diseases.