Value Changes about Women's Work and the Value of Children in Rural and Nomadic Areas: A Case Study of Gilangharb City

This study aimed to investigate the value changes related to women's work and activity and the value of children in rural and nomadic field in Gilangharb city emplying Bourdieu approach. This study was conducted using a qualitative approach with a sample size of 38 participants. The sampling method was purposive and qualitative content analysis was used to analyse the interviews. Qualitative content analysis of the interviews revealed 4 main categories that the category of generational change in women's values from productive / economic to emotional / consumer in both rural and nomadic fields was similar.. The other two categories compised of   the emotional and consumption value of children in the rural areas and the economic and productive value of the children in the nomadic field. Accordingly, the results show that in rural and nomadic areas, young women and girls are losing economic and productive value and achieving emotional and consumption value compared to the previous generation. Decreasing the number of children in the family was evident in both fields. In the nomadic field, children considered as the agent of production and economic power, and they work with their parents to secure their future, while in the rural field, children have acquired emotional value and have lost their economic and productive value.