Da naturalizaçao à perpetuaçaoo papel do quotidiano de nossas crenças sociais no processo de percepçao das várias formas da violência contra a mulher

Resumo

Violence against women is a complex social phenomenon due to the multiplicity of its forms of expression and its realization comes from multiple perceptual dimensions. Because it is inherently a phenomenon engendered in the heart of patriarchal culture, many of our beliefs are already spread by force of habit. The social permissiveness of violence of man against the woman provides a kind of "free pass" for men committing various expressions of violence, without their being perceived and treated as such. Thus, this article is meant to examine the phenomenon of violence against women as a social problem and so as a gender problem. So, proposes the analysis of the relationship between essentialist and social constructivist beliefs about the differences between men and women and the perception of violence of man against the woman, through a study in the city of Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, a sample of 449 students between high school and college. The instruments used were a range of social beliefs about the differences between men and women and a questionnaire on social perceptions of violence of men against women, and a sociodemographic questionnaire. The results also showed that both the relative position of the subjects in the social context of violence and its adherence to an essentialist position or naturalizing a social constructivist position affect perceptions of the meanings and the social construction of men's violence against women.