Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Department of social sciences, faculty of economic and social sciences, Bu- Ali Sina university, Hamedan, Iran
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Abstract
The main purpose of this qualitative study is to analyze causes, contexts and consequences of erlay marriage from standpoint of married school- girls. The conceptual framework of this study refers to the sociological Theories about family. The present study is qualitative (field) one. In this study, based on purposive and theoretical sampling methods are selected 16 married female school- girls in Sardrood section of Razan city as sample; the criterion of determining the sample size is theoretical saturation. Data are collected via open-ended questionnaires and in-depth individual interviews. They are divided into 3 main categories, 8 sub-categories and 27 concepts, which analyzed and interpreted with contextual analysis technique.
The results of this qualitative study show that from standpoint of the students who got married at the young age, they are two main reasons for erlay marrige, personal and family. Married girls consider the individual reasons for early marriage as “individual competition”, “reducing the risk of singlehood”, “lake of a clear future (other than marriage), “obtaining the patental consent”, and the family reasons as “control and domination over woman”, “strengthening the kinship ties” and “take care of childern”. According to married girls, the cultural contexts of early marriage are social and religious values of marriage” and its social contexts are “collapse of the family”, “social networks”, and “flexibility of the law (prohibition of marriage with children)”. The consequences of early marriage are “early adulthood”, “loss of women's subjectivity”, “incompatibility of roles”, “enclosure of women in private sphere” and “social status”.
Keywords
- “early marriage”
- “married female students”
- ”dominance over women”
- “reducing the risk of singleness”
- “early adulthood”
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