Abstract :
A rapid transformation can be seen in today’s societies engaged in the struggle termed modernization. The institution of the family receives its share, in terms of its re-shaping due to the changes and transformations of social dynamics. The social pressures are no longer applied in order to ensure family unity and continuity - these no longer exist in today’s marriages, which are dominated by individualised wishes and desires. On the contrary, today’s societies offer married individuals a multiplicity of options to cut and run when they reach crisis point, with divorce being one of these options. In today’s societies the conflicting desires and wishes of spouses can easily lead to divorce. In addition to this, legal reforms, changes in moral and cultural values, disassociation from religious beliefs that imposed protection of the matrimonial bond and the increasing acceptance of divorce, as well as increasing individualization, opened the door to, and have increased, divorce rates across the world. This study explains the functioning of marriage and family institution and the formation, development and shift in the phenomenon of divorce within the course of social change. The data related to the marriage and divorce processes employed in this study were obtained through in-depth interviews conducted with divorced female academicians at Akdeniz University, Antalya. The articulated causes of a divorce and how this affects the life of a female academician and her adaptation to the post-divorce period were analysed.
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Antalya , family , marriage , divorce , related experiences , woman , female academician
