Social and cultural consequences and misogyny; a case study of Ahwazi women

This study aimed at the study of social and cultural consequences of misogyny in Ahwaz in two fields of childhood socialization and social expectations, to find important factors affecting the formation of this phenomenon and solutions to reduce it. This is qualitative research using grounded theory as a method. The authors have conducted 21 semi-structured interviews with Ahwazi women between age of 16-65 and also cultural experts to conceptually reconstruct the consequences of misogyny and interviews were continued to the level of saturation. As a result, this paper introduces a paradigmatic model analyzing 149 concepts, 29 pivotal categories and 2 core categories including women’s gender socialization and non-realized expectations. The final model specifies contextual conditions like patriarchal culture, unbalanced role division and the collision of men’s and women’s worlds as the intervening conditions, undertaking female exhibiting behavioral manner, and changes in family values as interactions and weak self-confidence, weak humane character, poor feeling of security and beauty-based self-image as consequences of misogyny.