His Unemployment, Her Problem: the Domestic and Marital Consequences of Male Unemployment

摘要: We, sociologists that is, have been criticised for not being where the action is. We seen as failing to exercise our sociological imaginations. The vital Millsian link between private troubles and public issues (Mills, 1959), never very strong in British Sociology, has notably tenuous recent years. Until recently, remarkably little attention given large number of unemployed people (is it three or four million?) contemporary Britain. Detailed work understand their hardly begun. There though some response from community at same time an understandable impatience know precisely ‘how unemployment affects people’ (Harris, 1984). Harris asked question with increasing irritability exasperation he discovered we – is don’t really know. He asked, ‘what effect on family life, divorce, child abuse? No one seemed exactly. What was parental children’s school truancy? Has encouraged many move emigrate? Where were definitive figures delinquency crime, race religion? An embarrassing silence’ 1984, p. 88).