Symbolic Violence and Reproduction of Gender Inequality in Turkish Media: Case of New Bride TV Serial

Year 2019, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 34 - 40, 20.12.2019

Mehmet Özer

https://doi.org/10.32568/jfce.566548

Cited By: 1

Abstract

Television has capacity to reach to massive audiences
and produce various cultural commodities in a considerable amount, thereby
functions as a major agent in the process of socialisation and has necessarily substantial
power to construct social order. Despite the development of internet
technology, television, is still one of the major free time activities in
Turkish society. Gender inequality is currently a challenge in Turkish society
and televisions, thus becomes more of an issue. Bourdieu, as one of the most
creative, productive and iconoclastic scholars of the twentieth century
attempted to explicate how social order and structure is constructed and
reproduced with concepts of symbolic
violence, capital, habitus. The research analyses New Bride television serial with qualitative content analysis
technique to look into how gender inequality is reproduced by wielding symbolic
violence. New Bride television serial
is the unit of the content analysis. Symbolic
violence is the main category and sexual
division of labour and space, exclusion from public space, androcentric vision,
bodily emotions, love of dominant, ancien regime are the subcategories of
the content analysis. The research reveals that New Bride television serial contributes to the reproduction of
gender inequality by wielding symbolic violence. 

Keywords

Symbolic violence, media, television, gender inequality

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