Družbeni vidiki samskosti: primer oseb med 30. in 40. letom starosti

Mihalinec, Eva (author), Švab, Alenka (mentor)

Z nastopom pozno moderne dobe se zahodne družbe srečujejo z novimi trendi v družinskem življenju ? pluralizacijo, ki se kaže v novih oblikah partnerstva in starševstva, vse več posameznikov pa se odloča za samsko življenje. Kljub vsemu v družbi prevladuje imperativ partnerstva, kar samske označuje kot podrejeno družbeno kategorijo. Posledično se samskost označuje kot deviantnost, samski pa razvijajo različne strategije upravljanja s stigmo. Način stigmatizacije je spolno specifičen ? na ženske družba pritiska neposredno, medtem ko se moško samskost obravnava na bolj subtilen način. Ženske so torej precej bolj na udaru od moških, saj v družbi prevladuje podoba ženske kot žene in matere. Pogosto lahko zasledimo narativ, da imajo samski podporo, oziroma se jim stoji ob strani, kar nakazuje na dojemanje samskosti kot deviacijo od normativa partnerske zveze. Čeprav se večina samskih družbenih pritiskov ne zaveda, je željo po partnerstvu moč razbrati kot odziv na družbene norme in dominacijo partnerske zveze, ne pa kot željo po intimnosti.

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: samskost, imperativ partnerstva, diskriminacija samskih, pozna modernost
• Work type: Bachelor thesis/paper
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2018
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-101685
• COBISS.SI-ID: 35687773
• Publication date in RUL: 27.06.2018

Secondary language

• Language: English
• Title: Social aspects of staying single: the case of persons aged between 30 and 40 years

Abstract

With the advent of the late modern era, Western societies are confronted with new trends in family life - pluralisation which is reflected in new forms of partnership and parenting and more and more individuals decide to stay single. Nevertheless, the imperative of partnership prevails in society, which marks single persons as a subordinate social category. Consequently, being single is marked as a deviance, while single persons develop different stigma management strategies. The method of stigmatisation is gender-specific - the society is pressing on women directly, while single men are treated in a subtler way. Women are therefore substantially more discriminated than men since the image of women as wives and mothers dominates in society. Although most single persons are not aware of social pressures, the desire of partnership can be seen as the response to social norms and dominance of the partnership and not as a desire for intimacy.

• Keywords: singleness, imperative of partnership, discrimination of single persons, late modernity.