The production and reproduction of symbolic domination against women in Dehdasht

Abstract

this paper uses the critical sociology approach to explores how to generate symbolic domination against women at the level of personal, family, and social interactions, and reproductive symbolic domination at the family level, social structures and institutions that provided the basis for women's disabling and gender socialization. In order to achieve this goal, the critical ethnographic method for conducting research activities, the deep and semi-structured interview technique for data collection and its method analysis for analyzing the data has been used. The interviewees included 50 Dehdasht resident women who were selected based on purposeful sampling and according to theoretical Research findings include thematic networks: generating gender stereotypes and reproducing symbolic domination. The results show that symbolic domination of women is based on the social structure of patriarchy and its gendered stereotypes influenced by individual interactions (Women's self-censorship, negative self-concept and and concentrate on body management), family interactions (marital living experience, control, social validity, and domestic work sharing). And social interactions (social exclusion of women and educational and occupational discrimination). Reproduction of domination is achieved at the level of internalization of domination, , domination structural barriers, and cultural marginalization of women. "The role of tribal nervousness and historical patriarchy in the production and reproduction of symbolic domination against women" is the core issue.

Keywords

• production and reproduction of symbolic domination
• critical ethnography
• gender stereotypes
• gender socialization
• dehdasht