چکیده:
People usually associate power with military force, multinational corporations,
as well as elevated political positions. However, marriage and family are not
exempted from power struggles too; couples often encounter power issues. Present
article discusses power in families with focussing on power between married
partners or conjugal power.The paper also highlights some of the questions like,
what are the sources of conjugal power? what are the decision-making areas? what
are the analytical models of power relation among Iranian families?and tries to
find out answer of these questions. At the beginning, it discusses some classic
theories and studies about decision making in marriage and family life and then
look at what new generations of social scientists say about conjugal power.
Finally, taking advantage of document and comparative analysis as the main
methods used in this paper, it tries to examine the structure of power relations
in Iranian contemporary family.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Some of these areas are: -work engagement of wife out of home; -communication with friends or relatives; -caring of children; - Spending family budget; -quality and frequency of sexual relation of spouses; Sine the family issues are not alienated from socio-cultural climate of society, above list can be increased or deeaeased in different countries.
In this regard, there are some points over Iranian family power structure: 1- Patriarchal system as dominant socio-cultural context of Iranian society; 2- Role of religion, tradition and civil law in reinforcement of that system; 3- Strength of patriarchal system in rural living families; 4- Appearance of a new tendency toward egalitarian model of relations in urban living families; Review of general characteristics of power relations in Iranian families at macro-level, illustrates theory of socio-cultural context (Blumberg, Coleman, Gray and etc.
In this regard, the structure of conjugal power among those urban families who have more tendency toward traditional and immigrant based culture seems to follow the analytical model presented in socio-cultural context theory.
Conclusion In the present essay while considering some theories including Theory of Resource, Theory of love and need, Theory of socio-cultural context, marriag commintment and feminist theory, we discussed power structure in matrimonial life and pointed out to those factors that related to this point especially in Iranian family.
Available facts and the results of the sociological researches show in general that Iranian families – particularly in rural ones- are under men governance and management, such a phenomenon roots in social and cultural context of society and its main parameters like tradition, religion and law."