The present study intends to explore and investigate the contexts and semantic implications of individual conflict and fighting in Sanandaj through a structural-interpretive approach and thus analyze the process of formation of individual conflict in this city. In this study, the Grounded theory method of Strauss and Corbin was used and the data were collected using the in-depth interview technique. The participants of this study were street brawlers in Sanandaj city, 15 of whom were interviewed with the help of theoretical and purposeful sampling method. Finally, the collected information was coded and analyzed in the form of 18 central categories and one core category. The results of the study indicate that the conflict participants have engaged in individual conflicts with or without the use of cold weapons in contexts and conditions such as defamation and lowering the tolerance threshold (as causal conditions), Traffic problems, Mimicking violence and family tensions (as intervening conditions), and Norms of violence, a anomic economy, police patrols being delayed and monitored, a culture of honor-based courage, and ineffective litigation (as background conditions), which has consequences such as recognizing an ineffective judicial-security system, regret in the valley of duality, legal punishment, reduced sense of security, injury, and social punishment for them. Such results indicate that individual conflicts are not merely an individual matter, but also an individual, social, cultural, and institutional matter, but not a security matter.
Type of Article:
Original Research |
Subject:
Social problems Received: 2025/07/4 | Accepted: 2025/10/23