Although extensive research has been carried out in the field of social justice in terms of femicide in defence of family honour around the globe, intersecting aspect of identity as an underlying psychological mechanism to justify the social sources of these killing has not been addressed in much detail. The present study, therefore, examined the role of (a) diverse social representations in femicide, (b) geography and ethnicity in social representations of honour violence, and (c) the functions of these diverse social representations in maintaining social injustice towards women through the promotion of occidentalism in line with the boundaries for a hegemonic notion of western modernisation. Two studies were conducted. The first study includes a content analysis investigating data from 73 respondents living in the western part of Turkey. The present findings showed that there are different social representations of honour killings, such as töre killings and namus killings. These diverse representations were found to reflect the fact that individuals delegitimise töre killings as eastern, outrageous, tribalistic, and related to family honour while legitimising namus killings as personal, valuable, self-aware, and vulnerable, in the context of “westernised” Turkey. The second study comprises an experimental design in which participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: namus killing, töre killing, and control. The results showed that diverse social representations of femicide have psychological functions such that a namus representation gives more legitimacy to femicide than does a töre representation. The consideration of diverse representations in honour killings and their functions has the potential to inform research as well as to build effective prevention policies targeting the reduction in femicides. A focus on the concept of namus and an emphasis on moving the focus of social representations away from responsible backwards, “the other East” and towards namus as one of the leading sources of domestic violence may switch the problem from the perception of victimised eastern women and to a general injustice problem.

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社会代表在荣誉暴力中的作用：“其他东方”为负责任

尽管在全球范围内就杀害女性杀人剂以捍卫家庭荣誉为目的在社会正义领域进行了广泛的研究，但身份认同作为一种基本的心理机制来证明这些杀戮的社会根源是正当的。因此，本研究审查了（a）在杀害妇女中各种社会代表的作用，（b）地理和种族在名誉暴力的社会代表中的作用，以及（c）这些不同的社会代表在通过维护妇女对妇女的社会不公正中的作用。根据西方现代化的霸权主义观念的边界来促进西方主义。进行了两项研究。第一项研究包括内容分析，该研究调查了居住在土耳其西部的73位受访者的数据。撕毁杀人和namus杀人。发现反映一个事实，即个人delegitimise这些不同的表述撕毁杀戮东部，离谱，tribalistic，虽然合法化关系到家族荣誉namus杀人为个人的，有价值的，自我意识，和脆弱，在上下文中的“西化”土耳其。第二项研究包括一项实验设计，其中将参与者随机分配到以下三种情况之一：杀死na鼠，杀t和控制。结果表明，对杀害女性的各种社会表征具有心理功能，因此纳木斯代表对杀害女性的合法性要高于对杀害女性的合法性。撕毁表示。考虑到在荣誉谋杀中的不同代表及其功能，有可能为研究提供信息，并针对减少杀螨剂制定有效的预防政策。重点关注纳姆斯的概念，并强调将社会代表的重点从负责任的倒退，“另一东方”转移到作为家庭暴力的主要来源之一的纳姆斯，这可能会改变人们对受害东方妇女的看法以及普遍的不公正问题。