Aspectos jurídicos e sociológicos do estupro na sociedade brasileira contemporânea

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the composition of rape through sociological and legal perspectives in order to understand the nuances that surround, preserve and transmit this heinous crime. The theory of male domination by the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu is adopted as a theoretical framework, according to which this domination is constituted and dissipated through symbolic violence, which therefore configures the confirmation of male domination as a form of symbolic power. For this investigation, through bibliographic research, complementary research analyzes about the construction of social psychology and the chronological evolution of legal devices are used, as a way of demonstrating how much the concept of male domination is rooted in contemporary society. Under these aspects, it is verified that the perpetuation of the tangle of silent symbols that encompass contemporary Brazilian society can be resolved by questioning the roles traditionally played by the female and male genders.