Iranian Journal of Sociology

Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the status of structural violence in Sanandaj city and its consequences by using grounded theory method. The core category was systematic deprivation which implied a severe and absolute privation. The emerged theory showed that the mutual effect of structural violence and contextual conditions make individuals attempt to adapt, change conditions, or deviate while the community uses its own strategies to control the deviance. As a results, we see some different economic outcomes such as poverty, unemployment, and hardship and social outcomes like societal exclusion, committing a crime repeatedly, and vulnerability of family. Therefore, the interaction of structural violence and the agent intensifies the misery and deprivation of the individuals.