Linda Mckie
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 245594 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Linda Mckie |
| PRENOMES | Linda |
| SOBRENOME | Mckie |
| ASSINATURA | MCKIE L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Glasgow Caledonian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3098-3661 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 510 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Historical Perspectives on British Sociology's Future
John Scott's career as a sociologist spans more than 50 years, during which time he has written or edited more than 40 books among a total of more than 200 publications. The breadth of his interests and his service to the discipline in various roles including as President of the British Sociological Association and chair of the Sociology sub-panel for the Research Assessment Exercise and the Research Excellence Framework make him particularly wel…
Care horizons and career choices for women managers
In this article, we present an analysis of data from four focus groups conducted in Finland and Scotland with women in managerial roles from a range of employment sectors. Increasing longevity has led to burgeoning care needs while necessitating more years in the workplace given financial challenges and career aspirations. We conclude that gendered presumptions about caring, and flexible working, remain prevalent and impact on the life and career…
Impacts of Professionalization and Wellbeing Policies on Scottish Prison Workers
Prison workers occupy a niche role. Balancing the care and welfare of prisoners while simultaneously restricting their freedoms is a stressful job, laced with danger, that occurs entirely within the bounded context of the prison. Here, wellbeing and professionalism are closely linked and articulated through a range of policies. This article explores the perceptions and experiences of staff in relation to a range of wellbeing and training policies…
Cold Winds and Warm Attachments
The question of personal attachment to work in neoliberalism is subject to debate. Some scholars postulate that personal attachment to work based on durability, collectivity and predictability is weakening because of changes in its organisation; work ceases to provide the basis of subjectivity and identity. Conversely, others claim work, and neoliberal economic logic generally, pervades ever deeper into our lives, shapes our subjectivity, and inc…
Exploring Women's Mutuality in Confronting Care-Precarity
Exploring scholarship in reciprocity, gift and gendered social capital, and drawing upon research and analysis across 15 years (2003-2018), this article offers fresh theoretical insights into everyday practices of low-paid women with care responsibilities. Framing women's pragmatic mutuality in confronting precarity in their care arrangements, we propose the concept of 'Care Accounts', articulating a practice of collaborative workplace problem so…
Care and caring
This paper proposes a framework to guide research and analysis of informal care building on, and developing, earlier ideas about “caringscapes” and “carescapes.” We use the metaphor of a “care ecology” to suggest an overarching framework in which individuals’ “caringscapes” are viewed as dynamically interacting with the resources and services of a “carescape.” We start by summarising the main features of the caringscape and carescape frameworks, …
MyManagement
Purpose The authors report on research with women managers, documenting their strategies in response to gendered and sexualised working life. The paper aims to offer a conceptual framework and suggest ways in which employing organisations and workers might recognise and address the myriad forms of discrimination. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative design was pursued with 15 one-to-one interviews and two focus groups involving 12 women mana…
An End to the Crisis of Empirical Sociology
Research data are everywhere. In our everyday interactions, through social media, credit cards and even public transport, we generate and use data. The challenge for sociologists is how to collect, analyse and make best use of these vast arrays of information. The chapters in this book address these challenges using varied perspectives and approaches: The economics of big data and measuring the trajectories of recently arrived communities Social …
An End to the Crisis of Empirical Sociology
Peer-reviewed
The Best Time is Now!’
This paper explores the potential for the concepts of time and space, together with the analogy of landscapes, to aid the exploration and understandings of women's careers. Drawing upon case studies of women who chose to opt in to self‐employment, we examine how the multi‐faceted histories of these women are drawn upon as they remember the past, explain contemporary experiences, and anticipate their futures. All the women spoke of opting in to se…
Gender, age and ageism
This article explores the intersectionality of gender and age in work and careers of women managers. Interviews were conducted with women senior managers in two EU countries, namely Finland and Scotland. These countries have demographic and economic similarities, but there are differences in welfare regimes, economies and employment policies. Using the approach of biographical matching the article compares how women managers in these countries en…
Exploring Trends and Challenges in Sociological Research
This is the first e-special issue for the journal Sociology and its chosen focus is the article 'The coming crisis of empirical sociology' by Savage and Burrows (2007). This article challenged sociologists with a variety of questions about the role, relevance and methodological opportunities for sociological research in the 21st century. On publication it stoked the already charged debates on a public sociology (Burawoy, 2004), the role of public…
Interdependency and Care over the Lifecourse
Interdependency and Care over the Lifecourse draws upon theories of time and space to consider how informal care is woven into the fabric of everyday lives and is shaped by social and economic inequalities and opportunities. The book comprises three parts. The first explores contrasting social and economic contexts of informal care in different parts of the world. The second looks at different themes and dynamics of caring, using fictional vignet…
Gendered and Social Hierarchies in Problem Representation and Policy Processes
This article identifies and critiques presumptions about gender and violence that continue to frame and inform the processes of policy formation and implementation on domestic violence. It also deconstructs the agendered nature of policy as gendered, multilevel individual and collective action. Drawing on comparative illustrative material from Finland and Scotland, we discuss how national policies and discourses emphasize physical forms of violen…
Researching 'Care' in and around the Workplace
In this research note we critically consider the concept of 'care' both inside and around the workplace. Care, we assert, is ever-present in the workplace and evident in friendships and wider social relations. Moreover, many organisational policies and practices provide a framework within which caring may take place or be denied. 'Organisation carescapes' is introduced as a conceptual framework, which we argue can aid the identification and analy…
Autonomy, control and job advancement
Food retail is a major employer and growth sector. It is one in which gender segregation is evident with many shops reliant on part-time low paid women employees. Most of these employees are trying to combine care responsibilities and paid work. This research note explores findings from 55 interviews with women working in nine food retail businesses in Scotland. Analysis illustrates the ways shop assistants maximize their control over time to ens…
Gendered policy and policy on gender
The notion of policy can easily appear as gender-neutral, yet processes of policy formation and implementation are informed by presumptions about gender. In this article an analytical framework to identify and critique presumptions about gender and policy is developed, through a focus on the policy problem of'domestic violence'.Three gendered processes in policy construction are considered: gendering the naming and defining of violence; the absen…
Family Comes First or Open All Hours
This paper draws on qualitative findings from a study exploring work-life balance issues amongst female employees within food retailing. Whilst female employment is fundamental to this sector, there is limited evidence on employees' experiences of reconciling relatively low-paid work and the particular demands of food retailing with domestic and caring responsibilities. Managing competing discourses and demands at home and work is a feature of ma…
Women's experiences of combining eldercare and paid work in the Scottish food retail sector
This paper draws upon qualitative data from a mixed-methods study to consider women’s everyday experiences of combining paid employment with informal care for older relatives. Women who participate
Public Policy and Equality
Doing What is Right
Understanding discursive shifts over the twentieth century in relation to family roles, paid work and care is essential to any critical review of contemporary family theory and policies. This paper charts aspects of these shifts. An analysis of case records of the Royal Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (RSSPCC), 1945 to 1960 is presented. Based upon these data we reflect upon the construction of the working-class family …
Sociological Work on Violence
The suffering caused by violence is senseless, persistent and demoralizing (Gordimer, 2003). For perpetrators there is the hollowness of holding power over others, a power that illustrates the fragility of their situation (Card, 2002; Mason, 2002). Yet despite the obvious relevance to sociology, violence in everyday and intimate practices has not been a central concern for sociological theory (Hearn, 1998; Ray, 2000). This may reflect the 'taken …
Families, Violence and Social Change (Issues in Society)
Love's Labours Lost? Feminism, the Disabled People's Movement and an Ethic of Care
The Disabled People's Movement (DPM) and the Feminist Movement appeal to incompatible meanings of 'care'. For the DPM the word 'care' is to be resisted. The emotional connotations implicit in the concept and experience of care inhibit the emancipatory project for independence and self-determination. Feminist theorists value the concept of care, and the emotional aspect of 'caring about' in 'caring for'. Given that independence can be interpreted …
Gender-Neutrality and Gender Equality
Violence against women is a serious social problem and human rights concern. What is usually referred to as 'domestic violence' is predominately perpetrated by men know to women through intimate or familial relationships. While there are some patterns and probabilities amongst men who are violent to known women (Walby and Myhill 2001), there is no typical abuser, and domestic violence appears in all social groups, races and religions, classes and…
Doing home”
Shadow Times
In this article we explore temporal and spatial frameworks for analysing the experience of combining caring for children with participation in paid work. We highlight the pressure to undertake paid employment routinely, which places particular strains upon people who are most likely to have to combine caring and working. The authors assert that mothers continue to have the main responsibility for the organization, if not the conduct, of caring wo…
Gender, age and ageism
This article explores the intersectionality of gender and age in work and careers of women managers. Interviews were conducted with women senior managers in two EU countries, namely Finland and Scotland. These countries have demographic and economic similarities, but there are differences in welfare regimes, economies and employment policies. Using the approach of biographical matching the article compares how women managers in these countries en…
Love's Labours Lost? Feminism, the Disabled People's Movement and an Ethic of Care
The Disabled People's Movement (DPM) and the Feminist Movement appeal to incompatible meanings of 'care'. For the DPM the word 'care' is to be resisted. The emotional connotations implicit in the concept and experience of care inhibit the emancipatory project for independence and self-determination. Feminist theorists value the concept of care, and the emotional aspect of 'caring about' in 'caring for'. Given that independence can be interpreted …
(Inter)Dependence, Needs and Care
In this article we examine the tensions between feminist and disability studies perspectives on care.We argue that an emancipatory model of care is one that must address these tensions. In developing this model we consider the notions of (inter)dependence and need across the lifecourse. Drawing on the work of Fraser (1989), we propose that the notion of 'needscape' can be used to construct a 'discourse bridge' that will mediate between the disabi…
Gender, Caring and Employment in Britain
Employment and social policies continue to be based upon a gender template that assumes women, especially mothers, are or should be natural carers. Invariably, policies that seek to promote women's entry to paid work do so by facilitating their management and conduct of caring work, thus reinforcing the gender template. In addition, contemporary debates around concepts of citizenship emphasise the obligation to paid employment but fail to tackle …
The Best Time is Now!’
This paper explores the potential for the concepts of time and space, together with the analogy of landscapes, to aid the exploration and understandings of women's careers. Drawing upon case studies of women who chose to opt in to self‐employment, we examine how the multi‐faceted histories of these women are drawn upon as they remember the past, explain contemporary experiences, and anticipate their futures. All the women spoke of opting in to se…
Eliciting the smoker's agenda
Gendered policy and policy on gender
The notion of policy can easily appear as gender-neutral, yet processes of policy formation and implementation are informed by presumptions about gender. In this article an analytical framework to identify and critique presumptions about gender and policy is developed, through a focus on the policy problem of'domestic violence'.Three gendered processes in policy construction are considered: gendering the naming and defining of violence; the absen…
Family Comes First or Open All Hours
This paper draws on qualitative findings from a study exploring work-life balance issues amongst female employees within food retailing. Whilst female employment is fundamental to this sector, there is limited evidence on employees' experiences of reconciling relatively low-paid work and the particular demands of food retailing with domestic and caring responsibilities. Managing competing discourses and demands at home and work is a feature of ma…
Care and caring
This paper proposes a framework to guide research and analysis of informal care building on, and developing, earlier ideas about “caringscapes” and “carescapes.” We use the metaphor of a “care ecology” to suggest an overarching framework in which individuals’ “caringscapes” are viewed as dynamically interacting with the resources and services of a “carescape.” We start by summarising the main features of the caringscape and carescape frameworks, …
Gendered and Social Hierarchies in Problem Representation and Policy Processes
This article identifies and critiques presumptions about gender and violence that continue to frame and inform the processes of policy formation and implementation on domestic violence. It also deconstructs the agendered nature of policy as gendered, multilevel individual and collective action. Drawing on comparative illustrative material from Finland and Scotland, we discuss how national policies and discourses emphasize physical forms of violen…
The art of surveillance or reasonable prevention? The case of cervical screening
In this article data are presented and analysed which identify and explore a white male working class discourse on cervical screening. This discourse was recounted by women who participated in nine discussion groups held as part of a project concerning the views of working class women on cervical screening.The cervical screening service is often viewed as a valuable component of preventive health services and one which recognises the unique healt…
Gender, health and healing
Starting Well
In this article we present a critique of a series of public policy documents that aim at improvement in health for the general population, particularly families, but fail to recognize or appreciate the implications of gender for the everyday and the long-term experiences of family members. Drawing upon considerations of gender, families, health, time and space, and previous theoretical work (McKie et al., 2002), we propose the concept of 'healths…
Exploring Trends and Challenges in Sociological Research
This is the first e-special issue for the journal Sociology and its chosen focus is the article 'The coming crisis of empirical sociology' by Savage and Burrows (2007). This article challenged sociologists with a variety of questions about the role, relevance and methodological opportunities for sociological research in the 21st century. On publication it stoked the already charged debates on a public sociology (Burawoy, 2004), the role of public…
Autonomy, control and job advancement
Food retail is a major employer and growth sector. It is one in which gender segregation is evident with many shops reliant on part-time low paid women employees. Most of these employees are trying to combine care responsibilities and paid work. This research note explores findings from 55 interviews with women working in nine food retail businesses in Scotland. Analysis illustrates the ways shop assistants maximize their control over time to ens…
Daily and lifecourse contexts of smoking
Smoking remains a key topic of research and debate within the field of health research in the social sciences. This article seeks to add the dimension of the smokers' and ex-smokers' perspectives to the debate in order to ground the importance of smoking in people's everyday lives. Data are drawn from 54 semi-structured interviews with smokers and ex-smokers involved in a study of their experiences and understandings of the place of smoking in th…
Rhetorical Spaces
In this article I adopt the concept of `rhetorical spaces' as a tool for exploring the creation of dialogues between stakeholders that can enhance realistic participation by communities. It is argued that evaluation research can be imbued with a `code of presentation' that renders input from community participants to be unspoken, unheard or dismissed. Without an understanding and appreciation of the myriad processes of participation by communitie…
Cold Winds and Warm Attachments
The question of personal attachment to work in neoliberalism is subject to debate. Some scholars postulate that personal attachment to work based on durability, collectivity and predictability is weakening because of changes in its organisation; work ceases to provide the basis of subjectivity and identity. Conversely, others claim work, and neoliberal economic logic generally, pervades ever deeper into our lives, shapes our subjectivity, and inc…
Sociological Work on Violence
The suffering caused by violence is senseless, persistent and demoralizing (Gordimer, 2003). For perpetrators there is the hollowness of holding power over others, a power that illustrates the fragility of their situation (Card, 2002; Mason, 2002). Yet despite the obvious relevance to sociology, violence in everyday and intimate practices has not been a central concern for sociological theory (Hearn, 1998; Ray, 2000). This may reflect the 'taken …
Time to disclose, timing disclosure
Research has demonstrated that women are more likely to disclose domestic violence to a GP during the consultation in primary health care than in Accident and Emergency. Little is known of the process of disclosure in the context of primary health care, especially from the perspective of the GP. In this article we present data from a pilot study with GPs working in a city locality about their experiences of disclosure and the actual processes thr…
Exploring Women's Mutuality in Confronting Care-Precarity
Exploring scholarship in reciprocity, gift and gendered social capital, and drawing upon research and analysis across 15 years (2003-2018), this article offers fresh theoretical insights into everyday practices of low-paid women with care responsibilities. Framing women's pragmatic mutuality in confronting precarity in their care arrangements, we propose the concept of 'Care Accounts', articulating a practice of collaborative workplace problem so…
Gender-Neutrality and Gender Equality
Violence against women is a serious social problem and human rights concern. What is usually referred to as 'domestic violence' is predominately perpetrated by men know to women through intimate or familial relationships. While there are some patterns and probabilities amongst men who are violent to known women (Walby and Myhill 2001), there is no typical abuser, and domestic violence appears in all social groups, races and religions, classes and…
A Serious Issue for the Body Politic
Equal Opportunities and Public Policy
This paper will critically review the competing definitions of the concept of equality as epitomised in UK and EC equalities legislation. Attempts to formulate childcare policies by organisations like the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) and some local government women's committees (LGWCs) in the UK and the Equal Opportunities Bureau (DG5) of the European Community (EC) are fundamentally affected by these definitions. Our exploration of the d…
The European Economic Community - a vehicle for promoting equal opportunities in Britain
Health in Old Age. Myth, Mystery and Management (Book)
The art of surveillance or reasonable prevention? The case of cervical screening
In this article data are presented and analysed which identify and explore a white male working class discourse on cervical screening. This discourse was recounted by women who participated in nine discussion groups held as part of a project concerning the views of working class women on cervical screening.The cervical screening service is often viewed as a valuable component of preventive health services and one which recognises the unique healt…
A Serious Issue for the Body Politic
Gender Perspectives On Household Issues
Doing home”
Los sanitarios públicos para mujeres
Los sanitarios públicos para mujeres: un asunto grave para la política del cuerpo
Gender, Power and the Household
Gender, Power and the Household
Daily and lifecourse contexts of smoking
Smoking remains a key topic of research and debate within the field of health research in the social sciences. This article seeks to add the dimension of the smokers' and ex-smokers' perspectives to the debate in order to ground the importance of smoking in people's everyday lives. Data are drawn from 54 semi-structured interviews with smokers and ex-smokers involved in a study of their experiences and understandings of the place of smoking in th…
Gender, Caring and Employment in Britain
Employment and social policies continue to be based upon a gender template that assumes women, especially mothers, are or should be natural carers. Invariably, policies that seek to promote women's entry to paid work do so by facilitating their management and conduct of caring work, thus reinforcing the gender template. In addition, contemporary debates around concepts of citizenship emphasise the obligation to paid employment but fail to tackle …
Constructing Gendered Bodies
Shadow Times
In this article we explore temporal and spatial frameworks for analysing the experience of combining caring for children with participation in paid work. We highlight the pressure to undertake paid employment routinely, which places particular strains upon people who are most likely to have to combine caring and working. The authors assert that mothers continue to have the main responsibility for the organization, if not the conduct, of caring wo…
Time to disclose, timing disclosure
Research has demonstrated that women are more likely to disclose domestic violence to a GP during the consultation in primary health care than in Accident and Emergency. Little is known of the process of disclosure in the context of primary health care, especially from the perspective of the GP. In this article we present data from a pilot study with GPs working in a city locality about their experiences of disclosure and the actual processes thr…
Rhetorical Spaces
In this article I adopt the concept of `rhetorical spaces' as a tool for exploring the creation of dialogues between stakeholders that can enhance realistic participation by communities. It is argued that evaluation research can be imbued with a `code of presentation' that renders input from community participants to be unspoken, unheard or dismissed. Without an understanding and appreciation of the myriad processes of participation by communitie…
Eliciting the smoker's agenda
Gender-Neutrality and Gender Equality
Violence against women is a serious social problem and human rights concern. What is usually referred to as 'domestic violence' is predominately perpetrated by men know to women through intimate or familial relationships. While there are some patterns and probabilities amongst men who are violent to known women (Walby and Myhill 2001), there is no typical abuser, and domestic violence appears in all social groups, races and religions, classes and…
Gender, health and healing
Starting Well
In this article we present a critique of a series of public policy documents that aim at improvement in health for the general population, particularly families, but fail to recognize or appreciate the implications of gender for the everyday and the long-term experiences of family members. Drawing upon considerations of gender, families, health, time and space, and previous theoretical work (McKie et al., 2002), we propose the concept of 'healths…
(Inter)Dependence, Needs and Care
In this article we examine the tensions between feminist and disability studies perspectives on care.We argue that an emancipatory model of care is one that must address these tensions. In developing this model we consider the notions of (inter)dependence and need across the lifecourse. Drawing on the work of Fraser (1989), we propose that the notion of 'needscape' can be used to construct a 'discourse bridge' that will mediate between the disabi…
Families, Violence and Social Change (Issues in Society)
Love's Labours Lost? Feminism, the Disabled People's Movement and an Ethic of Care
The Disabled People's Movement (DPM) and the Feminist Movement appeal to incompatible meanings of 'care'. For the DPM the word 'care' is to be resisted. The emotional connotations implicit in the concept and experience of care inhibit the emancipatory project for independence and self-determination. Feminist theorists value the concept of care, and the emotional aspect of 'caring about' in 'caring for'. Given that independence can be interpreted …
Public Policy and Equality
Doing What is Right
Understanding discursive shifts over the twentieth century in relation to family roles, paid work and care is essential to any critical review of contemporary family theory and policies. This paper charts aspects of these shifts. An analysis of case records of the Royal Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (RSSPCC), 1945 to 1960 is presented. Based upon these data we reflect upon the construction of the working-class family …
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