The investigation of Social Values Women in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh with regard to Emile Durkheim’s Sociological Approach

Becoming familiar with women’s manner and behavior is a collective matter so it needs to understand sociology. Durkheim presents symbolic interaction theory by the appearance of collective conscience and claims that human society is passing the stages of development toward progression and pluralism by physical and ethical density. Identity conflict is individual state but it is reflection of collective life of social and structural values and reflection of collective issues. The aim of conducting this study is the investigation of social values which are reflected in the manner and behavior of women in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh according to the sociological approach of Emile Durkheim that was written with regard to women’s identity, marriage, and hijab. The research method is descriptive-analytical-and comparative in this study. The finding of this research demonstrated that women play different roles in their lives based on their feminine identity in different sections of life in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh. Some of the Ferdowsi’s views that are reflected in his poems are in harmony with Durkheim’s view as both of them consider women and men equally. According to social interactionism theory it can be said that social factors such as education, social classes, the amount of using mass media are aligned with Shahnameh ;however, rationalism with early marriage or baseless marriage such as marrying with near relatives has the opposite relationship. Also factors like traditional family, distrust of parental family and gender inequality has direct relationship with early and baseless relationship.