Open AccessViolence against women as the risk for social transformation
Author(s) -
Vesna Miletić-Stepanović
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
temida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0941
pISSN - 1450-6637
DOI - 10.2298/tem0501021m
Subject(s) - habitus , social transformation , social position , sociology , social capital , reproduction , social psychology , social reproduction , social relation , psychology , social change , social science , economics , economic growth , cultural capital , ecology , biology
Violence against women is social risk, active at three levels: individual, group and global. Global level of risk is risk for social transformation. Theory of P. Bourdieu, and basic concepts: social reproduction, habitus, risk, capital, are used in the paper. Index of violence is generated by seven modes of violent behaviors, and four levels of intensity. Analysis steams into two directions: it researches violence against women as social relation, and relations between violence against women and social position