Hamedanian Fatemeh, Ghadermazi Sirwan
Department of Education, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden.
Independent Researcher, Växjö, Sweden.
Front Sociol. 2022 May 9;7:790905. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2022.790905. eCollection 2022.
Ensuring the safety of women as a vulnerable group in urban areas is a fundamental issue and of utmost importance to issues such as violence, crime, victimization, and depression. The purpose of this study is to investigate, through qualitative analysis, the contexts, causes, and consequences of women's feelings of unsafety in urban environments. The research field of the study is the public spaces of Tehran. The subjects and their spatial and interactive dimensions were explored through in-depth individual interviews, direct observation, and participant observation, and data from this study were analyzed using grounded theory. The results show that women's feeling of not being safe in the urban space of Tehran, the capital of Iran, is the result of some influential structural factors such as "socioeconomic challenges" and "dysfunctional socialization" and some contextual factors such as "crowded places" and "showing off." The women in the study also believe that their feelings of unsafety are reinforced by certain reasons evident in the behavior, language, and gestures of men. The feeling of unsafety among women has consequences at the micro and macro levels. Because of this feeling, women take "preventive measures" at the micro-level and at the macro-level, such feelings of unsafety lead to the spread and reinforcement of the "decay of social trust."
确保城市地区弱势群体女性的安全是一个根本问题，对暴力、犯罪、受害和抑郁等问题至关重要。本研究的目的是通过定性分析，调查城市环境中女性不安全感的背景、原因和后果。该研究的领域是德黑兰的公共场所。通过深入的个人访谈、直接观察和参与观察，探讨了研究对象及其空间和互动维度，并使用扎根理论对本研究的数据进行了分析。结果表明，在伊朗首都德黑兰的城市空间中，女性的不安全感是一些有影响力的结构因素，如“社会经济挑战”和“功能失调的社会化”，以及一些背景因素，如“拥挤场所”和“炫耀”的结果。参与研究的女性还认为，男性的行为、语言和手势中明显存在的某些原因加剧了她们的不安全感。女性的不安全感在微观和宏观层面都产生了后果。由于这种感觉，女性在微观层面采取“预防措施”，而在宏观层面，这种不安全感会导致“社会信任衰退”的传播和强化。
