Challenging landscapes of sociological thinking on everyday family lives in the UK: taking the yellow brick road. Issue 5 (3rd May 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Edwards, Rosalind
• Is Part Of: Gender, place and culture. Volume 27:Issue 5(2020)
• Page Start: 704
• Page End: 716
• Publication Date: 2020-05-03
• Subjects: brain science -- economic rationality -- families -- gendered moral rationalities -- personal life; Human geography -- Periodicals; Feminism -- Periodicals; Géographie féministe -- Périodiques; 305.305
• DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2018.1553857
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0966-369X

Abstract

Abstract: This paper considers several critical and feminist interventions that colleagues and I have inserted into some key sociological perspectives and policy terrains in the families field: economic rationality, personal life, brain science, and social change. I use the metaphor of the 'yellow brick road' to discuss the challenges we made to the universalistic, decontextualized and unsituated thinking that often underpins and characterises intellectual and policy landscapes, and to think about how concepts of time and space can enhance understanding and bring the relationship between social divisions and everyday family lives in location into view. I conclude with some reflection on future possibilities and challenges in the families field.