Sociological Analysis of factors Affecting Violence against Women (A Qualitative Study)

This research has investigated the factors and consequences of violence against women in the form of a qualitative study using grounded theory methodology. Due to the appropriateness of qualitative methods in identifying and investigating the hidden angles of the phenomenon of family violence, this method has been used. In this research, purposeful sampling was used to collect information and select participants for conducting interviews. Until the desired cases and theoretical saturation were reached, 21 women who were victims of violence between the ages of 20-45 who come to the social emergency center of Nahavand city, in-depth interview and Semi-structured to It was done. After analyzing and checking the content of the interviews and statements of the abused women, using open coding, primary concepts were selected and 20 major categories were selected in the axial coding and one central or core category was selected and extracted in the selective coding. The results of this research show that different conditions and contexts are influential in the occurrence and increase of family violence. which factors such as husband's addiction, patriarchal attitude, wife's unemployment and gender socialization as causal conditions and factors such as husband's personality problems and disorders, forced and early marriage, observing and experiencing violence and lack of support from family and surrounding people as background conditions and factors such as interference Relatives and friends and low education Husband’s has been effective as an intervening condition in husbands' violence against women.