When Political Regulations Crash into the Private Sphere: The Forced Nuclearisation of Everyday Life in the Context of Pandemic Isolation Cover Image

KO POLITIČNE UREDBE TRČIJO V ZASEBNOST: PRISILNA NUKLEARIZACIJA VSAKDANJEGA ŽIVLJENJA V KONTEKSTU EPIDEMIČNE IZOLACIJE
When Political Regulations Crash into the Private Sphere: The Forced Nuclearisation of Everyday Life in the Context of Pandemic Isolation

Author(s): Tanja Oblak Črnič, Alenka Švab
Subject(s): Sociology, Health and medicine and law, Family and social welfare
Published by: Slovensko sociološko društvo (in FDV)
Keywords: families; households; everyday life; family practices; epidemic; Covid-19;

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with an analysis of the changed intradynamics of everyday life as a result of the Covid-19 epidemic and the consequent quarantine in spring 2020. Based on data from a quantitative exploratory survey conducted online in April 2020 on a sample of 711 respondents regarding everyday life during the spring quarantine, we analysed changes in daily practices, attitudes, (mental and physical) health and well-being, perceptions of the quarantine period, and the quarantine’s impact on (social) inequalities (gender, age, education, income). The results show the reorganisation of everyday life during the quarantine in spring has led to certain changes in everyday practices, which, as we assumed, are embedded in previously existing structural inequalities; in the family context, mainly gender inequalities are seen in the division of family-related labour.

  • Issue Year: 36/2020
  • Issue No: 94-95
  • Page Range: 29-54
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Slovenian