Investigating the Relationship of Social, Cultural, and Economic Capitals with the Tendency to Divorce among Women in the Port of Deylam
Journal Title: Strategic Research on Social Problems in Iran - Year 2021, Vol 10, Issue 2
Abstract
Introduction Divorce is one of the most important life events that is considered as a social issue in the world today. For whatever reasons, it may create a kind of disorder in the personalities of family members and prepare the ground for a tendency to social perversion and crime. Therefore, it is necessary to study this event and the factors that lead to it, especially when it is traditional in small communities. The desire to divorce and act on it is a phenomenon that has spread in today's societies. Researchers have studied this problem from different angles to prevent and solve it. Various factors are involved in the types of relationship and the differences between couples leading to divorce. The purpose of this study was to investigate divorce among the women, who wanted to divorce or attempted it, as well as its relationships with their social, cultural, and economic capitals in Deylam City. Materials & Methods This research was a descriptive-correlational survey. The statistical population included all married women in the port of Deylam (54 women, who wanted to divorce their husbands or were about to divorce them). The data collection tool was a questionnaire, the validity and reliability of which were confirmed through content validity and Cronbach's alpha coefficient, respectively. The obtained values were for social, cultural, and economic capitals were 0.82, 0.85, and 0.92, respectively. The statistical calculations were performed using 23Spss software. Also, Pearson’s correlation coefficient was utilized for analysis with respect to normality of the research data. Discussion of Results & Conclusions The descriptive results of this research showed that 57.3% of the respondents were less than 30 years old. In terms of literacy and education, 16.7% of them were illiterate and about 70% of them had a diploma. In terms of employment status, 20.4% of the women were unemployed and the rest had low-level jobs. In terms of cohabitation, 48.1% of them had been involved in less than 2 years of cohabitation with their husbands and had tended to divorce, while the lowest rate of cohabitation was related to those, who were over 16 years old (7.4%). In terms of having children, 22.2% of them, who wanted to divorce, were childless and about half of them (48.1%) had 2 children. The results of testing the hypotheses revealed a significant inverse relationship between social capital and the desire for divorce. Those with more social trust were less likely to divorce. The sense of commitment increases when there is trust and a couple's commitment to each other leads to family cohesion. This was true especially in the port of Deylam where families often knew each other and trusted in their children's marriage in a way that there was a cohesion between the families and tribes, thus preventing separation and divorce to occur. There was a significant relationship between social relationships and divorce. The more social relationships the women had, the less likely they were to divorce. According to Bourdieu, the value of a person's relationships depends on the number of connections he/she makes. The more connections there are, the greater the dependence will be; thus, strong social relationships lead to special dependence between couples with no divorce striking the mind. However, in this study, those women, who had more social participations, were more likely to get divorced. Coleman argues that the costs of cooperation will enhance if the incentive norms for social capital participation in a group are not sufficient. The increase in women's social participations may sometimes prevent them from having enough interactions with their husbands, while men in traditional societies are more willing to participate in their family affairs rather than having their wives' social participations and they would tend to get divorced if they do not understand this. In this research, there were no relationships between the components of cultural capital and the tendency to divorce. The lack of a relationship between cultural capital and divorce is so well explained by Bourdieu's theory. The port of Deylam is a traditional city where most marriages are based on family introductions. The boys and girls communicated based on their class habits, while the different cultural backgrounds between them could be neglected. Therefore, the couples had less conflicts with each other and the women adopted the procedure of adapting to their husbands’ conflicting behaviors instead of wanting to divorce. There was also no significant relationship between economic capital and divorce. Usually in traditional and small communities, including the port of Deylam, material possessions are not very different between individuals, while most families lead a simple life and are thus more satisfied. In this study, economic capital had little role in the women's objections against their living conditions. The result was that social capital provided couples with a hidden social control over the departure from norms by creating a platform of cultural and social networks and providing opportunities for them to join a group in a way that one could feel belonging to it, while filling their free times with constructive and useful activities; besides, they easily trusted others and enjoyed supports from their group networks. In such circumstances, warm family organizations were formed to prevent the damage of divorce.
Authors and Affiliations
Zahra Mohammadi* Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran zmohammadiz@pnu. ac. ir
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- EP ID EP704974
- DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.22108/srspi.2021.129419.1718
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