Roles of Women and Men Produced on TV Series: The Sample of Ece (The Turkish Soap Opera Series)

Year 2019, Volume: 14 Issue: 20, 905 - 928, 31.12.2019

Nesrin Canpolat , Nuriye Çelik

https://doi.org/10.26466/opus.576252

Cited By: 2

Abstract

This study aims to analyse
the daily experiences of a woman who is strange to the existing social gender
perceptions, with an ethnomethodologically point of view instead of looking for
her role which needy and powerless against a man. A total of 26 chapters of the
series were analysed by discourse analysis over a period of 6-8 months. As a
result, it was observed that the men and women presented in the television
series internalized the social roles in their daily lives and presented the
behaviour patterns that were appropriate to these roles. Besides, the
stereotyped ideas that existed in society for women remained valid in this
study. Because of the reason for the existence of the strong woman presented in
Ece, as different from other TV series, is still she has a male mind. In
addition, the other result of the study is the impossibility of understanding
how produced images are the male and female roles in society unless individuals
undergo a serious transformation, such as gender transition.

Keywords

Ece tv series, gender roles, gender transition, discourse analyses

Dizilerde Üretilen Kadın ve Erkek Rolleri: Ece Dizisi Örneği

Abstract

Bu çalışma, mevcut toplumsal cinsiyet algılarına
yabancı olan bir kadının gündelik yaşamındaki deneyimlerini etnometodolojik bir
bakışla analiz etmeyi amaçlar. Ece dizisinin toplam 26 bölümü 6-8 ay gibi bir
sürede söylem analizi üzerinden incelenmiş, sergilenen kadın ve erkek
rollerinin arkasında yatan toplumsal algılar ve önyargılar açığa çıkarılmıştır.
Bu çalışmanın sonucunda televizyon dizisinde sunulan kadın ve erkek rollerinin,
günlük hayatlarındaki sosyal rolleri içselleştirdikleri ve bu rollere uygun
davranış kalıplarını sundukları görülmüştür. Ayrıca kadınlar için toplumda var
olan klişeleşmiş fikirler bu çalışmada da geçerliliğini korumuştur. Ece
dizisinde sunulan güçlü kadın imgesi, diğer dizilerden farklı olarak bir erkeğe
karşı güçsüz, muhtaç ve savunmasız bir şekilde sunulmamaktadır. Bunun sebebi
dizideki güçlü kadın imgesini sahneleyen kadının, senaryo gereği, halen bir
erkek zihnine sahip olmasıdır. Çalışmanın bir diğer sonucu ise bireylerin
cinsiyet değişimi gibi ciddi bir dönüşüm geçirmediği sürece, toplumdaki erkek
ve kadın rollerinin üretilen imgeler olduğunu anlamalarının imkânsızlığında
yatmaktadır. Bir erkeğin, kadının günlük yaşamında maruz kaldığı toplumsal
önyargıları anlayabilmesi için kadın bedeninde yaşaması gerekmiştir.

Keywords

Ece dizisi, toplumsal cinsiyet rolleri, , toplumsal cinsiyetin değişimi, söylem analizi

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