The Chain of Lacks: Exacerbation of the Crisis in Marginal Areas (Facing of the Citizens of the Suburbs of Sanandaj with Covid-19)

The consequences of the Coronavirus outbreak are so widespread that many social scientists expect the formation of a different world with distinct features called the post-corona world. Such a statement shows the importance of the issue and the extent of its impacts on various aspects and areas of human life around the globe. Undoubtedly, such consequences will have long-term and severe effects on marginal and less-favored areas around the world, including Iran. This study aims to examine how the citizens of Sanandaj’s suburbs confront social problems with a focus on the strategies, facilities, and opportunities of the citizens in the particular case of the Coronavirus. The research was conducted using the grounded theory method. Required data were collected using interviews and was analyzed using Atlas T software. Following the coding process, which yields 56 codes and five key categories, the central category "chain of lack" was introduced as the output of how to deal with the Coronavirus and its surrounding components of Sanandaj’s suburban residents. According to the paradigm model, the term “chain of lack” originates from causal conditions such as social deprivation and social inequality, which can be described with the emergence of mediating factors such as lack of skills, knowledge, and support with underlying conditions such as recession, inflation, mistrust, frustration, depression and lack of access to cyberspace. In brief, marginalized people are victims of their own social and economic circumstances and are more likely to experience problems, indicating that the coronavirus, is not a "democratic" virus, contrary to common belief.