Women's 'Stories': The emotional consequences of long-term and persistent poverty in childhood and the shaping of women's lives.

这个项目旨在探索情绪社会学，以此作为理解贫困生活经历的手段，以及它所具有的潜力，在社会学内部的结构-代理分歧之间形成一座桥梁。-探索童年时期遭受贫困的妇女的情感历史和现实，以了解这如何影响、使她们能够或限制她们的生活。-理解其他人所称的整个生命过程中决策的关键时刻的含义。通过在批判的现实主义和女权主义立场观点的本体论和认识论叠加中工作，这项研究将进一步理解妇女在遇到支配贫困的结构性力量时生活是如何进步的。特别是，它将探索他们的经历是如何在情绪上内化和外化为关键时刻的决策的，在关键时刻，有不同的轨迹可用。通过采用叙事法，本研究将通过人生史访谈和日记，利用她们的经验地位，呈现女性在童年经历贫困的“故事”。情绪社会学是理解贫困生活经历的有用视角，但尚未得到充分探索。因此，它通过理解女性在其情感背景下的决策，提供了面对占主导地位的、对女性贫困的宿命论解释的可能性。通过开发一种概念和方法的方法来理解整个生命过程中贫困和情感之间的性别关系，这项研究将产生关键的新知识，以回应一个紧迫的社会和政治问题，并提供一种更具人文主义和代理精神的替代方案，以取代对妇女贫困的决定论或病理性描述。

This project aims to - Explore the sociology of emotions as means to understand the lived experience of poverty and the potential it has to form a bridge between the structure-agency divide within sociology. - Explore the emotional histories and realities of women that have endured poverty during childhood to understand the ways this has influenced, enabled, or constrained their lives. - Understand the implications of what others have termed 'critical moments' of decision-making across the life-course.By working within the ontological and epistemological imbrication of critical realist and feminist standpoint perspectives, this study will further understandings of how women's lives progress as they encounter the structural forces governing poverty. In particular, it will explore how their experiences are emotionally internalised and externalised as decisionmaking at critical moments where divergent trajectories are available. By taking a narrativeapproach this research will present women's 'stories' of experiencing poverty during childhood, drawing on their experiential position thorough life-history interviews and journaling. The sociology of emotions is a useful lens to understand lived experiences of poverty but has not yet been fully explored. It therefore offers the potential to confront dominant, fatalistic explanations of poverty for women by understanding their decisionmaking in its emotional context. By developing a conceptual and methodological approach for understanding the gendered relationship between poverty and emotions across the lifecourse, this study will produce critical new knowledge in response to an urgent social and political issue and provide a more humanistic and agentic alternative to deterministic or pathologised accounts of women's poverty.