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

这个项目的目的是-探索情感社会学作为理解贫困生活经验的手段，以及它在社会学中的结构-机构鸿沟之间形成桥梁的潜力。- 探索在童年时期忍受贫困的女性的情感历史和现实，以了解这对她们的生活产生影响，使她们能够或限制她们的生活。- 了解什么人被称为“关键时刻”的决策在整个生命course.by批判现实主义和女权主义的立场观点的本体论和认识论的重叠内工作的影响，这项研究将进一步了解妇女的生活进展，因为他们遇到的结构性力量治理贫困。特别是，它将探讨他们的经验是如何在情感上内化和外化的决策在关键时刻，不同的轨迹是可用的。本研究将以叙述的方式呈现女性在童年时期经历贫穷的“故事”，透过生活史的访谈和日志，以她们的经验立场为基础。情感社会学是理解贫困生活经历的有用透镜，但尚未得到充分探讨。因此，它提供了一种可能性，通过从情感的角度理解妇女的决策，来对抗占主导地位的、宿命论的对妇女贫穷的解释。通过开发一个概念和方法的方法来理解贫困和情感之间的性别关系在整个生命过程中，这项研究将产生关键的新知识，以应对一个紧迫的社会和政治问题，并提供一个更人性化和代理替代妇女的贫困的确定性或病理性帐户。

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.