Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Majid Kafi ¹
• Leila Bahmani ²
• Maryam Sadat Delavar ³

¹ Graduate from Qom Seminary and a Faculty Member of the Research Institute of Seminary and University, Iran

² PhD Student of Women's Studies, University of Religions and Denominations, Qom, Iran

³ MA in Sociology, Instructor at Payam Nour University, Iran

Abstract

The present study is based on the assumption that the more the women enjoy the cultural capital, the higher their position in the power structure of the family and the more their bargaining power will become. For evaluating the aforementioned theory, the required data were attained through survey methodology and questionnaire tool and a sample size of 385 married women residing in Shiraz was selected. The sampling method was multistage random and random and for analyzing the data and testing the theories, the statistical methods of correlation coefficient, multivariable regression, and path analysis were used. The findings show a significant relationship between the types of cultural capital (institutionalized, embodied, and objectified) and the women's power in family; which means that by increasing the types of cultural capital in women, their power would increase too. Amongst the whole underlying variables, men's education, women's employment and family dimension suggest a significant relationship with the women's power. The results of regressive coefficients show that three variables of employment, family members, and cultural capital play a role according to their importance in determining the dependent variable and in general, they describe 40% of the dependent variable of the variance (R2= 0.40).

Keywords

• embodied cultural capital
• institutionalized established cultural capital
• objectified cultural capital
• power in family

Main Subjects

• Women's Studies