In this paper, we will explore and discuss the methodological applications on the one hand social structures, for example collective habits formalized as legal rules, policy, norms, moral obligations etc., which also allow for cohesion and the continued reproduction of any given socio-cultural system, and on the other hand the often contrasting/opposite concept of ‘action’ or ‘agency. The paper illustrates how the interplay between risk and inequality can be explored first as a structural process as governance and normalization of risk where the subject is taken for granted but not examined and/or external constrains are determinant for the subject but the subject becomes possible through structure, for example through interpellation and being a moral subject, and what this methodologcially means for risk and inequality for example by being ‘at risk’ or ‘a risk’. Then the subject is in the foreground as an actor, although still constrained, or the subject behind the masks, and ask if it is possible to find conjunction between risk, power and inequality beyond norms and hegemonic structures, or at least showing methods how this could be uncovered.