نوع مقاله : پژوهشی
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عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
The aim of the research is to investigate family economism in Kermanshah city in an exploratory manner using grounded theory. Neoliberalism uses different mechanisms to impose its logic, depending on the structure of each society, which requires analysis. The method of data collection was semi-structured interviews. The findings showed that the causal conditions of family economism included modernization, marketization of social relations and communications, contextual factors included changes in values and norms and consumerism, and intervening factors included weakness in the field of policymaking, political economy, and economic crises. In the face of such a situation, family members turned to the strategy of economic culture and economic socialization, and the result was mental disorders at the individual level and social indifference and social harms at the social level. The general conclusion is that neoliberalism, considering the economic and social structure of Kermanshah city, has launched negative mechanisms specific to such a situation, the result of which was family economism through the imposition of market logic.
کلیدواژهها English
Extended Abstract
Introduction
The family has always been one of the institutions that has had religious, social, cultural and economic functions. With the formation of modernity and changes in the mode of production, the family has undergone structural changes. All daily individual and social relations have no meaning except in the context of economic life. The family's life world is affected by economic mechanisms and is changing and transforming. The family in the city of Kermanshah is also affected to some extent by new mechanisms and has seen the changes that have occurred in the economic and social spheres of Iranian society. This highlights the need to examine the developments in the family in a society whose slogan is culture and the preservation of the family system. The main issue of the research is how the family institution has become isolated within the framework of the macro-social and cultural mechanism and has lost its main function, and their actions have tended towards economic relations?
Methodology and Data
The research method was qualitative and conducted using grounded theory; the chosen method should analyze and examine the practical and theoretical reasons of the actors in explaining their behavior. Data collection was through in-depth interviews. The target population was women and men in Kermanshah in 1403. The sampling method was theoretical and purposeful, guided by the research problem, and theoretical saturation continued until 24 people.
Finding
The findings showed that the causal conditions of family economism include modernization, marketization of social relations and communications. Modernization imposes new economic and capitalist relations on society and tries to highlight economic logic and uniformity to advance capitalist relations. Marketization has caused social dysfunction of the family. It has reduced public services and monetized them, as well as reduced social functions of the family and eliminated some of its functions in favor of market logic and the production of profit accumulation at the macro level. Communications are also the main tool in the service of neoliberalism to propagate and promote the market mechanism on family life, which, through media and advertising, tries to influence all macro levels of society and create its own culture for alignment. The social and economic contexts of economism in the family have included changes in values and norms and consumerism, changes in social values and norms and consumerism. The interfering factors of family economism have included weakness in the field of policymaking, political economy, and economic crises. At the macro level, power institutions have also been able to impose economism on the family institution as intervention factors, which is a result of weakness in the field of social and economic policy-making, the political economy of the government, and economic crises. When power institutions at the cultural and social levels cannot provide new laws in line with developments and do not have correct policy-making, the family institution will inevitably take the path imposed by market logic. Faced with such a situation, family members have turned to the strategy of economic culture and economic socialization, and the result is mental disorders at the individual level and social indifference and social harms at the social level.
Discussion and Conclusion
Neoliberalism in every society has chosen specific mechanisms and imposed its logic according to its economic, social and cultural structure and characteristics. It seems that in Iran and especially in the city of Kermanshah, neoliberalism has opened paths for changing the family through the ineffectiveness of the government's political economy in the face of economic crises, which ultimately resulted in family economism, and this approach in Kermanshah has been more negative than positive. In other words, it has used the intra-social capital that has created eye and eye to impose fashion and consumerism, which is different from consumerism and fashion in developed and modern cities. It has also used economic crises and inflation to make money and the value of savings important and to reduce social relations, rather than the positive side, which is economic growth and high income, and as a result, consumerism.
The modern economic logic, by providing all social elements, has caused the freedom of action to be taken away from the members of that society and everything is reproduced within the framework of its mechanisms. A purely economic view of marriage, childbearing, and dowry has caused a decrease in the marriage rate, an increase in the age of marriage, and a decrease in fertility. The social changes that have occurred in some social institutions, such as the family, have been forced, imposed, and unwanted. Therefore, with the introduction of economic logic (market) into the family, there are irreparable cultural and social costs for the family and society.
