Survival Strategies of Young Widows to Strive in Their Social Environment

DOI

10.2991/icss-18.2018.322How to use a DOI?

Keywords

window, divorce, survival strategies.

Abstract

The community tends to have negative perceptions towards widowhood which leads to discriminatory treatments. The focus of this study illustrates the strategy of young widows in the District of Sukun in Malang City to strive in their social environment. The design of this research was phenomenology with interpretive paradigm which refers to Edmun Husserl's theory. In-depth interviews and observation were employed to collect the data. To analyze the data, four stages of analysis were used that include collecting and organizing data, followed by the data reduction stage and data refinement stage, and ended in naturalistic generalization and data compilation. The results of this study reveal some strategies used by the young widows in an effort to survive in the social environment. These include being apathetic about the environment, looking for other men, asking for help from clergyman (kyai), maintaining attractive appearances to avoid being underestimated, and focusing on work. The findings suggest that policy makers in the community should pay close attention to the existence of widows and discriminatory treatment they receive. This paper also outlines several strategies that young widows use in their efforts to survive and adapt to the social environment.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Latifatul Fauzi
AU  - Ms Sarmini
AU  - Sri Sukartiningsih
AU  - Vivit Novia Harirotul Abadiah
AU  - Muhamad Miftahul Alim
AU  - Iwan Yulianto
PY  - 2018/10
DA  - 2018/10
TI  - Survival Strategies of Young Widows to Strive in Their Social Environment
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social Sciences (ICSS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1547
EP  - 1551
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icss-18.2018.322
DO  - 10.2991/icss-18.2018.322
ID  - Fauzi2018/10
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