Paper short abstract:

This ethnography explored the impact of moral quests on the everyday life of some women living in Norway with chronic rheumatic condition. Narrative analyses identified how these quests play part in the womens management of unpredictability and contradictions in everyday life.

Paper long abstract:

This ethnography explored how four women living in Norway with chronic

rheumatic conditions related to and communicated moral issues in their everyday

activities. Narrative analyses identified how the women linked

everyday events and happenings to moral quests rather than to moral issues. Four stories are emplotted with

different moral quests, quests that are grounded in the women's everyday doing.

For example, one woman was concerned if she was doing well enough and another

woman was wondering about her society's good. The stories

show how the women experienced and managed unpredictability

and contradictions in their everyday life and activities, due to their conditions and

society's labelling traditions. The quests communicate the significance of their

experiences as human beings participating in a society where they are considered

to be different.