lived experience of single girls living in Tehran of social spaces

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1 Assistant Professor of Sociology at Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran

2 MA Student of Sociology at Tehran University, Iran

10.30465/ws.2024.47234.3985

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Today, the concept of power has acquired new epistemological and ontological dimensions and has become more explanatory. The complex relationship between power and resistance has led to the criticism of the concept of resistance and the development of alternative concepts. The purpose of this paper is to first provide a brief overview of power, resistance, and alternative concepts of resistance as well as to analyze 20 narratives of single girls living in Tehran, Iran, using an interpretative hermeneutic approach. These narrations illustrate their experiences with power relations in their everyday lives. In order to achieve this goal, the study has examined the family, the university, the workplace, and the public environment. The finding showed that power encounters can take three forms: receptiveness to power, powerlessness, and resistance. According to the findings, the concept of resistance is fundamentally inadequate. According to the results, subjects did not have a fixed or integrated identity. They could be receptive, powerless or resistant according to their interpretation of power relationships.

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Women Studies
Volume 14, Issue 46
March 2024
Pages 163-200

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  • Receive Date: 07 November 2023
  • Revise Date: 12 December 2023
  • Accept Date: 17 December 2023

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