Journal of Social Work Research

Acceptance of Masculine Hegemony and Child Marriage: A Qualitative Research

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Mohammad Abbaszadeh 1
Mohammad Bagher Alizadeh Aghdam 2
Bahareh Malekzadeh dizaj cheraghi 3

1 Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, University of Tabriz

2 Professor of Sociology, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

3 M.A student, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22054/rjsw.2024.75280.704
Abstract
Child marriage is one of the patriarchal gender forms and it is a kind of sexual repression that occurs on the females. In this regard, the purpose of this article is to analyze the lived experience of the girls who accepted the masculine hegemony under the age of 15 and married early. To do this, the current research was conducted based on the qualitative approach using a phenomenological method. The data were collected from 31 female students of Sufian who had married in the early age. A purposeful sampling strategy and snowball method was used. Also, an in-depth semi-structured interview was conducted. The interviews were analyzed using the Collaizi method. The main findings of the research, having the sub-categories of passivity and acceptance of masculine hegemony, includes (approving on behalf of somebody as silent violence, great patriarchy, forced family marriage, instrumental use of symbols in the form of symbolic violence, physical contact with the opposite gender, and preserving the honor for men no, for women yes!). They were found as the underlying components of accepting early marriage under the influence of masculine hegemony.

Keywords

Keywords: child marriage
symbolic violence
great patriarchy
masculine hegemony
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