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Sep 29, 2015 · Introduction. “Honor” means different things to different people at different times. In modern societies, honor refers primarily to a form of social status that attaches to integrity and sound character. But honor has an older meaning still found among some groups today—a form of social status founded on the willingness and ability to use ...
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Feb 24, 2021 · We present a feminist Durkheimian analysis of honor killing as a form of informal social control and argue that honor killing represents a ‘dark side of modernity’ in which the systematic marginalization and stigmatization of minorities and social groups have led them to rely more on traditional honor codes as a kind of informal social control, exacerbating honor crimes.
- Arash Heydari, Ali Teymoori, Rose Trappes
- 2021
Jul 30, 2018 · In honor cultures, aggression is an acceptable reaction to insults and threats to honor. Ethnographic and sociological research on diverse honor cultures, such as Iraqi Kurdistan (Begikhani et al. 2015), Spain (Gilmore 1987), rural Greece (Safilios-Rothschild 1969), and Turkey (Oner-Ozkan and Gencoz 2006), suggests that members of honor cultures consider retaliation a duty when a particular ...
- Aisha K. Gill
- a.gill@roehampton.ac.uk
Dec 20, 2020 · The policy of honour based violence in Sweden reflects the UN definition and academic frameworks on honour and gender norms, where honour based violence can be described as norms built on strong patriarchal and heteronormative perceptions, grounded in gender, power, sexuality, and culture (SoU, 2018).
- Monica Christianson, Åsa Teiler, Carola Eriksson
- 2021
Oct 12, 2022 · Orientalist frames and control over women as symbols of honor and patriarchal codes maintain tensions of dichotomies between modernity and tradition and cultural relativism. These are thus challenged by emphasizing women’s burdens – as situated individuals – of multi-layered struggles which unfold from purporting to depict women’s realities.
Dec 20, 2020 · The policy of honour based violence in Sweden reflects the UN definition and academic frameworks on honour and gender norms, where honour based violence can be described as norms built on strong patriarchal and heteronormative perceptions, grounded in gender, power, sexuality, and culture (SoU, Citation 2018).
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Oct 13, 2023 · Honor killings are a widespread practice that has its origins in patriarchal cultural norms that prioritize the honor of the family or community over the safety and well-being of individuals, particularly women (United Nations, 2015). Despite efforts by international organizations and governments to address honor killings, the practice persists in many parts of the world and continues to have ...