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