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Table 2 Summary of participants’ characteristics according to typology (n = 30)

From: Beyond will: the empowerment conditions needed to abandon female genital mutilation in Conakry (Guinea), a focused ethnography

  

Activists

Discrete

Courageous

Strategists

Total

n

14

12

2

2

30

Social capitala

Yes

14

12

0

 

26

No

0

0

2

2 (partial)b

4

Cultural capital

University – doctorate

1

0

0

0

1

University – master

4

4

0

0

8

University – bachelor

2

3

0

0

5

Current students

4

1

0

0

5

Secondary or professional trainingc

1

2

1

2

6

Primary or no education

2

2

1

0

5

Economic capital

High

10

9

1

1

21

Middle

4

3

1

1

9

Low

0

0

0

0

0

Type of social ties

Individualistic discourse

13

7

0

0

20

Interdependence discourse

0

0

2

1

3

Missing datad

1

5

 

1

7

  1. aSocial support for not practicing FGM
  2. bThe “strategists” perceive that some of their entourage do not support the non-practice of FGM
  3. cProfessional training, such as midwifery or technician certifications
  4. dThe narrative did not allow to classify in one or the other