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How social norms contribute to physical violence among ever-partnered women in Uganda: A qualitative study
This paper contributes to the literature that studies how social norms sustain undesirable behavior. It establishes how norms contribute to intimate partner physical violence against women. First, norms organize physical violence as a domestic and private matter. Second, they organize physical viole...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9477001/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36117885 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.867024 |
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author | Nnyombi, Aloysious Bukuluki, Paul Besigwa, Samuel Ocaya-Irama, Jane Namara, Charity Cislaghi, Beniamino |
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description | This paper contributes to the literature that studies how social norms sustain undesirable behavior. It establishes how norms contribute to intimate partner physical violence against women. First, norms organize physical violence as a domestic and private matter. Second, they organize physical violence as a constituent part of women's lives, thereby normalizing women's experience of abuse. Third, norms define appropriate boundaries within which male partners perpetrate violence. The findings draw essential information for social change interventions that target improvement in women's and girls' wellbeing. For social and behavioral programmes to change harmful norms, they have to deconstruct physical violence as a private matter, advance the de-normalization of physical violence, and dismantle acceptable boundaries within which violence happens. |
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spelling | pubmed-94770012022-09-16 How social norms contribute to physical violence among ever-partnered women in Uganda: A qualitative study Nnyombi, Aloysious Bukuluki, Paul Besigwa, Samuel Ocaya-Irama, Jane Namara, Charity Cislaghi, Beniamino Front Sociol Sociology This paper contributes to the literature that studies how social norms sustain undesirable behavior. It establishes how norms contribute to intimate partner physical violence against women. First, norms organize physical violence as a domestic and private matter. Second, they organize physical violence as a constituent part of women's lives, thereby normalizing women's experience of abuse. Third, norms define appropriate boundaries within which male partners perpetrate violence. The findings draw essential information for social change interventions that target improvement in women's and girls' wellbeing. For social and behavioral programmes to change harmful norms, they have to deconstruct physical violence as a private matter, advance the de-normalization of physical violence, and dismantle acceptable boundaries within which violence happens. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9477001/ /pubmed/36117885 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.867024 Text en Copyright © 2022 Nnyombi, Bukuluki, Besigwa, Ocaya-Irama, Namara and Cislaghi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Sociology Nnyombi, Aloysious Bukuluki, Paul Besigwa, Samuel Ocaya-Irama, Jane Namara, Charity Cislaghi, Beniamino How social norms contribute to physical violence among ever-partnered women in Uganda: A qualitative study |
title | How social norms contribute to physical violence among ever-partnered women in Uganda: A qualitative study |
title_full | How social norms contribute to physical violence among ever-partnered women in Uganda: A qualitative study |
title_fullStr | How social norms contribute to physical violence among ever-partnered women in Uganda: A qualitative study |
title_full_unstemmed | How social norms contribute to physical violence among ever-partnered women in Uganda: A qualitative study |
title_short | How social norms contribute to physical violence among ever-partnered women in Uganda: A qualitative study |
title_sort | how social norms contribute to physical violence among ever-partnered women in uganda: a qualitative study |
topic | Sociology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9477001/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36117885 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.867024 |
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