Power & Leadership in Iranian Family; A Sociological Approach | ||
| The International Journal of Humanities | ||
| Article 8, Volume 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 123-132 PDF (5.66 M) | ||
| Author | ||
| Seyed Kamaleddin Mousavi* | ||
| Kiev National University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| People usually associate power with military force, multinational corporations, as well as ele-vated political positions. However, marriage and family are not exempted from power strug-gles too; couples often encounter power issues. Present article discusses power in families with focussing on power between married partners or conjugal power.The paper also high-lights some of the questions like, what are the sources of conjugal power? what are the deci-sion-making areas? what are the analytical models of power relation among Iranian fami-lies?and tries to find out answer of these questions. At the beginning, it discusses some classic theories and studies about decision making in marriage and family life and then look at what new generations of social scientists say about conjugal power. Finally, taking advantage of document and comparative analysis as the main methods used in this paper, it tries to exam-ine the structure of power relations in Iranian contemporary family. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Family life cycle; Patriarchal system; Family roles; family structure; Power pyramid in the family; analytical model of cultural context; making decision in the family | ||
|
Statistics Article View: 115 PDF Download: 106 |
||
| Number of Journals | 45 |
| Number of Issues | 2,171 |
| Number of Articles | 24,674 |
| Article View | 24,467,333 |
| PDF Download | 17,562,250 |