Citation

Lawler J. Nurs. Inq. 1997; 4(3): 181-183.

Affiliation

Faculty of Nursing, University of Sydney, Australia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9335820

Abstract

This is a paper in which I reflect on, and draw issues from, an unplanned ethnographic experience in a London laundromat. The concept of 'everyday life' has a kind of simple, even benign, quality. However, there are many events in everyday life that are complex and complicating. Everyday life can be mundane--boring even. But it can also confront and trouble us, even when it concerns such apparently ordinary matters like doing the laundry. This paper is about how the ordinary matters of everyday life can become problematic and how our involvement in them can confront us with dilemmas that are unwanted yet require our attention and judgement as participants in social life.

Language: en