Abstract:
The study aims to search for how Mozabite university students consume
the university space, in relation of their cultural representations towards
gender, which is designed by the Mozabite community and how it is embodied
within the university space. We tried to address the theme within the
framework of this question: Do students' cultural representations of gender
affect the consumption of gender in the university space?
And We tried to answer this question by using the quantitative method in
order to test the hypotheses by verifying them through questionnaire, which aims
to quantify the phenomena in order to analyse the data statistically, the sample
population are Mozabite university students (males and females) and they include
the second and third levels of BA, the first and second levels of MA from various
Specialties, and the sample number is 200 respondents. After the field
investigation process, we reached the following results:
The more cultural representations of the students tend towards the
sanctification of gender, they work to embody it at the level of practices within
the university space, and vice versa whenever they tend towards desecration, this
appears in their practices. And that some representations, despite their tendency
towards desecration, were not embodied in the practices of that in the presence of
other factors such as social control or other issues, but in a small percentage
compared to reproduction.
Cultural representations of students towards gender, whether they tend
towards sanctification or desecration, have not been fully embodied within the
university space in the form of dealings, as there may be other variables that affect
their dealings. We also find that negotiation is intensely present at the level of
their representations and dealings.