Honor, control y violencia: una mirada sobre la socialización patriarcal de los varones occidentales

Abstract

The social evil of violence against women has shown that Western men keep on acting as agents of gender inequality despite their democratic education. According to Pierre Bourdieu’s explanations, patriarchal structures have perpetuated themselves, reproducing the symbolic domination of women and men, contrary to social change towards gender equality in the last century. Thus, androcentric morality of honour still induces men to confirm their masculinity as subjects of power in the public social sphere. This identification process would be developed through the male pragmatics of control: a group of self-control practices historically legitimized by the philosophical discourse, which internalizes violence in male behavior as a means of subjection of women.