Effect of Social Capital on Domestic Violence against Women in Mashhad

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This particular study different approach to agency approach Bourdieu, Putnam, Bandura, and Fukuyama examines the impact of social capital on violence and the factors associated with it. The presented research has a measurable method and its sample has been selected from 196 married women in different parts of Mashhad, having considered their social class and the effects of social capital on violence against women. For doing this the relation between violence against women with the type of social capital in four different dimension including family support, employment, education, belief and social communications and its direct effect on violence against women has been studied. The written presented in this research according to the special stand of each quantity and qualities paradigm is trying to have a cognitive usage approach so it can have suitable applied solution. The statistical analysis of the study show that only 9.74 % of women have never been assaulted and battered by their husbands and 62 % are most of the times physically abused, overall according to the statistics we can conclude that there is reversible relation between social capital and violence against women that means the more the social capital, the less violence against women.

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Quarterly Journal of Social Development (Previously Human Development)
Volume 9, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2
vol. 9, no. 2, Winter 2014
February 2014
Pages 7-46

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