Social Attitudes towards the Singlehood of Girls over 30 years Old (The case of Yazd City)

The desire to be accepted" makes an activist-player to play the burdened role in the most artistic and elegant way and assign the ultimate acceptance of its audience and own continuously their encouragement and praises, but when a barrier occurs in this process, the activist will be fallen from the peak of absolute acceptance to hillsides and sometimes he/she will be subject to a process called "stigma"!; a calumnious attribute with the relative characteristics intertwined with a particular attribute dependent on the context of the society. "Girls’ singlehood in older ages" phenomenon is among these characteristics in Iranian society. A phenomenon which the imbalance in the supply and demand in marriage in today's conditions makes this phenomenon more emphasized.
The present study, with the objective of evaluating the phenomenon "stigma of singlehood" in face-to-face relations and the field of interaction with ordinary people, in a survey method, is to investigate in the individual's attitudes regarding the singlehood of girls with 30 years old and older. Accordingly, by utilizing the theories proposed by Goffman and Bourdieu and also the theory of social learning and using the regular stratification sampling method in terms of stratification of the participants based on age, gender and residence, 384 20-70 year old participants in Yazd City were investigated using a questionnaire. Findings of the present study indicate that the presence of the social stigma of singlehood in about 50% of the participants.