Patriarcado y cultura familiar: génesis de la violencia de género

Abstract

The intention of this research is to analyze the relationship between patriarchy and gender violence as a family culture. This study is based on the epistemological approach of the Cognitive-Behavioral current, because it focuses on cognitions formed by thoughts, beliefs and images, emphasizing the cognitive vulnerability to be violent or to receive violence. The methodological approach is qualitative with a phenomenologicalhermeneutic design, whose purpose is to be able to analyze, explain and understand the study phenomenon from the participants' feelings, likewise, there was an intentional nonprobabilistic sample, so the participants were selected by convenience rather than randomly. The sample consisted of four women from the province of El Oro, Machala canton, who have or have had a partner or ex-partner, boyfriend or ex-boyfriend, spouse or ex-spouse and who at some point in their lives have been victims of gender-based violence. The first approach with the participants was favorable because they agreed to sign the informed consent given their socialization. A semi-structured interview was used as a research instrument to obtain specific information for the study. For the report of results, we began with axial coding, where the categories were related in order to group them and assign the theme that would represent them, with their respective code. Based on this, four themes of analysis were proposed: experiences of gender violence, forms of expression of patriarchy, learning from family culture and sociocultural factors that influence gender violence.