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Seymour, Wendy, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Remaking the body : Explorations in the sociology of embodiment." Deakin University, 1995. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050728.111439.
Full textHein, Jill Marissa. "Tween Body Image and Related Clothing Preferences." The Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392105358.
Full textHowson, Alexandra. "Sisterhood is cervical : a sociology of the body, gender and health." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26626.
Full textTwitchen, Alex Burton. "The body, sport and risk : an historical sociology of motor racing." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.402252.
Full textClark, Pamela Michelle. "The body matters : understanding social differences in mental health." FIU Digital Commons, 2003. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2377.
Full textChen, Ming-Chu. "The body politic in gendered techoscience : a deconstructive interpretation /." The Ohio State University, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487951214941284.
Full textCream, Julia Hilary. "Reproducing body contours : the woman on the pill." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307603.
Full textOrejuela, Fernando. "The body as cultural artifact performing the body in bodybuilding culture /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3161795.
Full textSource: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-01, Section: A, page: 0290. Adviser: Richard Bauman. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Oct. 11, 2006).
Clark, Pamela Michelle. "America's breast implant craze: exploring the politics of a postmodern gendered body." FIU Digital Commons, 2000. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2376.
Full textBoroughs, Michael Scott. "Body Depilation among Women and Men: The Association of Body Hair Reduction or Removal with Body Satisfaction, Appearance Comparison, Body Image Disturbance, and Body Dysmorphic Disorder Symptomatology." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3985.
Full textMcNay, Lois. "Power, body, gender : implications of French social theory for feminist critique." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1991. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272613.
Full textBrennan, Patrick Joseph, University of Western Sydney, College of Social and Health Sciences, and School of Applied Social and Human Sciences. "Dumb questions : blustering hostility : nature/nurture, the body and the sociology of child abuse." THESIS_CSHS_ASH_Brennan_P.xml, 2001. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/786.
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Elliott-Brennan, Patrick. "Dumb questions - blustering hostility nature/nurture, the body and the sociology of child abuse /." View thesis, 2001. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20040730.151852/index.html.
Full textRichardson, Margaret. "Effects of Internal Versus External Attribution and Body Mass Index on Weight Prejudice." TopSCHOLAR®, 2005. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/473.
Full textPereira, Beatriz Patriota. "“O mais profundo é a pele” : processos de construção de identidade por meio da tatuagem." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2016. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/7471.
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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
In order to contribute to the expansion of a sociological comprehension related to body and its identity, this research intents to understand how the inked person attributes meaning to his tattoo, to construct his identity. We recognize the increasing popularization of the tattoo and the existence of a correlation between tattoos and identity; also we consider that the tattoo, as a body modification, is a distinction and identification mark. Having those assumptions established, we propose in this research an understanding of the dimensions the tattoo has negotiated in a identity construction to the inked person. Those are our purposes: to understand how the tattoos meaning is built and the importance these signs hold in the selfimage construction to the inked person; to analyze how positions of subject, location and price influence in the process of choosing the images and the parts of the body in which the tattoo will be inked; finally, to establish the differences between “commercial” and “artistic” tattoos, both from the tattoo artist and the inked person point of view. These purposes will be achieved through a bibliographic, a participant observation in three different tattoo studios with different profiles and, finally, semi structured interviews with the tattooed persons.
Contribuindo para ampliar a compreensão sociológica sobre corpo e identidade, esta pesquisa tem o intuito de compreender como o sujeito tatuado dá significado a suas tatuagens ao construir sua identidade. Considerando a crescente popularização da tatuagem e partindo dos pressupostos de que há uma relação entre tatuagem e identidade e de que a prática, na qualidade de modificação corporal, é uma marca de diferença e identificação. A pesquisa visa compreender como a tatuagem é negociada na construção da identidade para o tatuado em São Carlos, interior de São Paulo. Os objetivos são: entender como as tatuagens são significadas e o que esses desenhos afirmam na construção de uma imagem de si para os tatuados; analisar como as posições do sujeito, a localização e os preços dos estúdios reverberam na escolha dos desenhos e dos locais dos corpos tatuados; e demarcar a diferença entre tatuagem “comercial” e “artística” do ponto de vista dos tatuadores e dos tatuados. Para isso, a metodologia é baseada em pesquisa bibliográfica, observação participante em três estúdios com diferentes perfis e entrevistas semiestruturadas com tatuados.
FAPESP: 2014/13133-1
Watson, Jonathan M. "Being in shape : the body as a location for the health beliefs of men." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1994. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU074533.
Full textWestoby, Kay. "Body, transparency and tactile dwelling : are we nearly here yet?" Thesis, Cardiff University, 2017. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/108505/.
Full textPilipovic, Josipa. "The body and democracy : Contemporary dance, technology and democracy." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för design (DE), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-76076.
Full textKwan, Samantha. "Contested Meanings about Body, Health, and Weight: Frame Resonance, Strategies of Action, and the Uses of Culture." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193746.
Full textWatts, Alison J. "Embodied Conflict: Women Athletes Negotiating the Body and Identity." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/111289.
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Breaking out of the traditional expectations of femininity, women participating in sports, particularly physically aggressive sports, challenge the dominant framework of a sex/gender binary. The reading of essential difference between the bodies of men and women has been central to the history of women's involvement in sports. Historically, women's bodies have been considered incommensurable with and even in danger of damage from participation within the male world of sport. In the current climate of sport, women athletes embody a peculiar dilemma as their participation is often encouraged provided that they maintain an appropriately feminine appearance. Prior research has provided a somewhat limited analysis of the dilemma that women athletes face in embodying femininity and athleticism, often reporting the experiences of a homogenous group of sporting women. To better understand the complex ways that athletes negotiate gender and the body, I focus on the experiences of a diverse group of women athletes. In particular, I pursue the following question: how do women athletes negotiate gender and the body in relation to multiple subject positions, such as those associated with gender, sexuality, race, and type of sport played? To answer this question, I conduct 5 focus group interviews using photo-interviewing and 40 in-depth interviews with athletes in basketball, soccer, and volleyball. The results indicate that women athletes' negotiations of gender and the body are highly influenced by the intersections of race, sexuality, and the type of sport played. Women athletes negotiate gender and the body in complex and ways that both reinscribe and challenge heterosexualized gender norms. While the embodied experiences of these athletes sometimes reinforce assumptions about gendered bodies, they also, at times, present the potential for more fluid and capacious understandings of gendered bodies. As such, these women athletes expose our knowledge about gendered bodies as contested and tenuous. I conclude by presenting areas of future research that arise from the findings in this study.
Temple University--Theses
Mansfield, Louise. "Gender, power and identities in the fitness gym : towards a sociology of the 'exercise body-beautiful complex'." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2005. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7753.
Full textBushaw, Kyle J. "The Effects of Police Body-Worn Cameras on Arrests| Examining the Chicago Police Department's Pilot Program." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10274824.
Full textWith overwhelming public support, pressure has been mounting on police departments to improve accountability and public trust by equipping their officers with body worn cameras (BWCs) to reduce police violence and hold officers responsible for excessive use of force, unjustified shootings, and other forms of misconduct. As police departments have begun to employ BWCs, however, concerns have risen regarding the application of this new technology and its potential to benefit police officers more so than the communities they serve. This study focuses on the city of Chicago’s recently implemented Body Worn Camera Pilot Program. The goals of this study were to determine if racial demographics could predict which of Chicago’s 22 police districts received BWCs during its pilot program, and whether and to what extent BWCs and the racial makeup of those districts influenced the arrest to crime ratios within them. A preliminary analysis revealed crime rates were not a statistically significant predictor for whether a district received BWCs. There was, however, an association between race and BWCs, where majority white police districts were much less likely to receive the technology. Standard multiple regressions indicate that as the white population percentage increases, arrests decrease. This finding was statistically significant at the .05 alpha level while controlling for the crime rate and BWC implementation. Three-way mixed ANOVA models were run to compare arrest to crime ratios pre- and post-BWC implementation for overall crime, serious crime, violent crime, non-index crime, and property crime. Although no significant two- or three-way interactions were found in any of the ANOVA models, when plotting the pre- and posttest arrest ratios there were noticeable differences between control and experimental groups across race.
Silva, Deborah Helen 1950. "The relationship between female body image and androgyny." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291890.
Full textVilla, Julio. "Cuerpo, masculinidad y estilo en jóvenes de sectores altos de Lima." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/114955.
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and the control of emotions. This research shows that, in the social sector explored, the concept of masculinity widens and the three components that were pointed out before, are reduced in intensity
meanwhile we foresee the importance of the body as an individuation factor and as an esthetic innovation. Through the practice of ethnography in two independent design stores in Lima, we observe that the appearance is produced when the personal taste, the salesmen as cultural intermediaries and the feminine figure intertwine.
Esta investigación aborda la masculinidad desde el cuerpo tomando como eje de análisis la estética corporal para poder arrojar luces sobre una dimensión poco estudiada y sobre la experiencia y re- presentación de la masculinidad en un sector que falta explorar. Los trabajos sobre masculinidades en América Latina y el mundo señalan tres componentes esenciales: la demostración constante de la masculinidad, la diferenciación con lo femenino y homosexual y el control de las emociones. Este trabajo evidencia que, en el sector social explorado, las fronteras de la masculinidad se amplían y los tres componentes antes señalados se reducen en intensidad mientras que se vislumbra la importancia del cuerpo como factor de individuación e innovación estética. Realizando una etnografía en dos tiendas de diseño independiente en Lima se observa que la apariencia se produce cuando se intersecta el gusto propio, el trabajo del vendedor como intermediador cultural y la figura femenina.
Moore, Erin Lindsey. "Thin-Ideal Internalization, Body Misperception, and Their Association with Weight Control Behaviors Among Adolescent Girls." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3053.
Full textJennings, George Bradley. "Fighters, thinkers and shared cultivation : experiencing transformation through the long-term practice of traditionalist Chinese martial arts." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/116974.
Full textGomes, Juliana Neves Simões. "Entre o ar e o chão: Metier de bailarino na cidade de São Paulo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8132/tde-22082011-104438/.
Full textThis thesis seeks to investigate the mysteries surrounding the access to the métier of dance, this artistic activity to which a minority is attracted, which makes the body a work instrument and a privileged transgression resource of their own living conditions. This is a study on professional dancers, both male and female, whose interest lies in examining the objective and subjective elements of access and permanence in this career. The idea is to unveil the \"vocation\" to dance considering as analytical scene the present choreographic context in the city of São Paulo, where dancers of distinct profiles are found lined up in different aesthetic models: on the one hand, the contemporary production that is based on the procedures of classical ballet and, on the other, the vanguard languages especially supported by improvisational techniques. Accordingly, the objective of this work is to understand, from a social standpoint, who are those that become dancers, their reasons and their means and to what extent the economic, symbolic and body capitals can be translated within the styles in which those paths are conducted. The thesis had as a research basis the ethnography of two dance companies from São Paulo a traditional and a vanguardist one as well as a series of interviews with dancers, from which both narratives about their itineraries and a morphological database were generated, allowing the interpretation of the trajectories of the agents in this environment. In addressing the basis of this dual methodological perspective, the work elaborates the analysis of body sculpting, these professionals imaginary and the lifestyles that derive from it. The social trajectory and the shape of the dancers bodies, submitted to the angle of the subjectivity of the subject and the construction of the size of their senses, were the main references used as data base to capture the specificities of holders who constitute the small group that leaps into this profession and starts to experience dance as a work, as a methodic way of life, and to examine the factors and social conditions underlying the formation of this vocation
Abbas, Andrea. "Sociological approaches to the sexed running body and its construction through magazine and memory 1979-1995." Thesis, Keele University, 2000. http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/7755/.
Full textReilly, Andrew H. "Risk, body image, and internalized homonegativity among gay men: body building, eating disturbance, tanning and unsafe sex." The Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1086193466.
Full textBridel, William. "Gender, sexuality, and the body: Exploring the lived experiences of gay and queer marathoners." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27228.
Full textLantz, Elise. "Des marginalités encadrées : étude des rapports au handicap dans différentes configurations associatives du monde du cirque contemporain français." Thesis, Montpellier 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014MON14001.
Full textThe contemporary circus emerged in France during the late 70s and so far it has taken up a marginal position. Itsframework reveals the ambivalent relationship between society and disability.A research approach in which disability is the result of interaction between individuals and their environments wasadopted. We conducted a wide angle quantitative study about circus associations throughout France, followed by aqualitative study centered on eleven circus associations. We established four relationship patterns with respect todissimilarities: some associations organize a Clustering and segregation, that separates people with intellectual disabilitiesfrom other participants, with the creation of a specialized circus programs; a majority of associations also accepts theparticipation of people who carries low impact disabilities in normalized circus practices, by a process of assimilation,reflecting a Behavioral prioritization ; in associations that regroup professional performers, few artists with unconventionalbody types are emphasized by their Creative corporal dissimilarity ; only one among all organizations studied offers anoriginal pattern of participation, where people with all types of abilities and disabilities are united in inclusive practices, bythe virtue of a creative mosaic.Contemporary circus has established specialized programs that reproduce the segregation utilized in the medicosocialand psychiatric sectors. It proposes a simulated integration aimed to the world outside of the disability, whileestablishing a distancing of the difference. Recurrent highlighting of artists with physical disabilities that creatively usestheir corporal differences and demonstrates exceptional body control masks this participation in the process of segregation.A single organization combines inclusive practices and affirmatively rejects its own institutionalization. For others,neither association status nor the posture of marginality produces original forms of participation for people withdisabilities.Norm is polarized: “Negative” marginality of the “disabled” – those that have a lack of behavioral control – isframed by a global care, while the “positive” marginality of corporal differences is framed as a fine art piece by spectacularstaging, the symbol of the renewed marginality of the contemporary circus
Hill, Anabel Lee 1954. "Changes in body weight, total body fat, fat distribution, and dietary food intake in Hispanics participating in a 6 month smoking cessation program with and without the use of transdermal nicotine." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282576.
Full textMueller, Emma, and Sara Johansson. "Sociala medier - Ett osunt samhällsfenomen : En kvantitativ sociologisk studie om Facebook och Instagrams exponering på kvinnors kroppsuppfattning." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34258.
Full textSyftet med studien är att undersöka om sociala medier har en negativ påverkan på hurkvinnor uppfattar sin egen kroppsbild. Studien genomfördes av en kvantitativ undersökningmed hjälp av enkäter för att undersöka de olika faktorerna som påverkar den uppfattadekroppsbilden. Såsom hur kvinnor jämför sig med andra eller hur nöjda de är med sin kroppberoende på hur mycket tid de spenderar på sociala medier. Vi kommer likaså undersöka omkvinnors uppfattade kroppsbild överensstämmer med deras faktiska kropp baserat på derasBMI. Urvalet för studien bestod av 159 kvinnor som är medlemmar i facebookgruppen Pinkroom. Materialet analyserades med bland annat stöd av Festingers teori om social jämförelseoch Cooleys teori om spegeljaget. Resultaten visar att vid hög användning av sociala medierpåverkas kvinnornas tillfredsställelse med kroppen i jämförelse med dem som användersociala medier i liten utsträckning. Det visar också att kvinnor som spenderar mycket tid påsociala medier tenderar att jämföra sig med andra i större utsträckning och att dem tenderaratt vara mer missnöjda med sin kropp.
Erim, Bilun. "Making The Secular Through The Body: Tattooing The Father Turk." Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613367/index.pdf.
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s tattoos through a twofold theoretical framework of body politics and secularism. Firstly, it examines the growing interest on the body in social sciences, which has focused on the body as a site of both docility and subversivity. Additionally, the body has been rediscovered as a fetish object through which selfhood and subjectivity are continually reconstructed and contested. These developments were simultaneously conditioned by and manifested themselves in an understanding of &lsquo
the body as a project&rsquo
. Secondly, the study explores Atatü
rk&rsquo
s continued legacy in Turkish politics and for the nation-people. 73 years after his death, Atatü
rk still remains the utmost personification of the secular Turkish nation state. An effort is made to demonstrate how &lsquo
the secular&rsquo
, representing the normative nation-identity, and &lsquo
the religious&rsquo
, representing its Other, have been made in Turkish history. In light of these theories, Atatü
rk tattoo almost seems like an oxymoron: &lsquo
tattoo&rsquo
carrying controversial and rebellious, and &lsquo
Atatü
rk&rsquo
statist and conformist undertones. The main ambition of this thesis is to explore this contradiction through an analysis of whether the Atatü
rk tattoo is a spontaneous (body) politics on the side of &lsquo
the people&rsquo
or whether it is a symptom of Kemalism&rsquo
s current position in society and politics. Finally, to better understand the subject, field research has been conducted with tattoo artists and people with the Atatü
rk tattoo, in 3 cities, through the summer and fall of 2010.
Horn, Zachary. "Cemeteries & the Control of Bodies." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/2986.
Full textIn addition to secularization theory, relevant concepts are also applied from the works of Talcott Parsons, Max Weber and Michel Foucault. The analysis suggests that the laicization of cemeteries is part of ongoing rationalizing trends in the larger society. The connection between cemeteries and changes in how we think about human bodies and death is also investigated. Rationalization is linked to a marginalization of the meaning of death as death itself moves from a religious understanding to the control of professionals and bureaucracies like hospitals and funeral homes.
Ghillani, Francesca. "Migrating bodies : the effects of transnational movement on women's bodily practices in later life." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bddae074-798e-490e-8079-85d9dfed9423.
Full textPollock, Sarah. "Framing Fitness: Gender, Experts, Popular Magazines, and Healthism." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/324761.
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I examined the extent to which Bourdieu's field theory applied to the fitness industry through analysis of magazine content and interviews with a variety of field participants. I found that the processes through which people come to understand and define fitness in different ways, and, at times, develop contradictory positions on the importance and benefits of fitness are in concert with Bourdieu's theory. I argue that in addition to the historical macro forces identified by other scholars as shaping the fitness industry, endogenous field dynamics propel the field in new directions. Four broad conceptions of fitness emerged: (1) fitness as health; (2) fitness as functionality; (3) fitness as obligation; and (4) fitness as appearance. Key findings include that fitness magazines' and experts' constructions of fitness relied on gendered biological understandings of the body that promote healthism. Fitness magazines' and experts' discourse equated fitness with gendered versions of personal responsibility, discipline, and moral character and often characterized fitness as a panacea. Magazines (re)produced gendered body ideals and perpetuated the gender binary. Women's magazines' incorporation of feminist empowerment discourse promoted individual-level empowerment while simultaneously perpetuating gender inequality. I identified a few alternative perspectives on fitness that critiqued the mainstream focus on fitness as a weight loss strategy and drew attention to social inequalities that result from idealizing particular body forms. I identified competition within the fitness field among various actors striving to establish legitimacy and secure resources such as social and economic capital. Competition occurred at three levels: the macro (field) level in which the fitness field competed with and against other fields, the mezzo (organizations) level in which institutions competed with each other, and the micro level in which individual experts and practitioners contended for recognition. Magazines and respondents identified various types of "fitness experts" whom I classified into five categories: producing, disseminating, practicing, alternative, and exemplary. I identified seven strategies used by fitness experts to claim expertise and establish legitimacy within the fitness field. These included: (1) social capital; (2) credentialing; (3) name-dropping; (4) using science and referring to scientific research studies; (5) referencing commercial success; (6) referencing personal fitness goal success; and (7) discrediting others. These strategies represent the logic of the fitness field and the struggle to establish associated forms of capital, such as social capital and bodily capital. I observed that because fitness is a commercial field--the industry generates billions of dollars in economic activity annually-- many of these forms of capital can be converted into economic capital. Thus, an appreciation of the economics of fitness provides an important perspective on the competition within the field. I found differences in the fitness habitus among the variety of players and agendas in the fitness field. In other words, people came to fitness with different assumptions about what was "natural" and "desirable"--and indeed, even different definitions of fitness itself. Respondents in the study held different beliefs about how bodies work, the extent to which they can change, the desirability of certain physical forms, whether or not the pursuit of fitness is a morally superior activity, and whether that pursuit is obligatory work or enjoyable leisure. I compared how various experiences and social factors produced differing definitions of fitness and hypothesized that variations in habitus are associated with different desired changes to the fitness industry. As the fitness industry continues to grow, and as public programs increasingly turn to exercise as part of the solution to the "obesity epidemic," more research is needed to understand what messages are available to the public about fitness and which are most important in shaping public perception and debate. Continued attention to how fitness is influenced by and contributes to gendered body ideals is warranted. This project highlights the socially constructed nature of fitness and identifies what factors influence how fitness is understood.
Temple University--Theses
Adams, Joshua R. "Transient bodies, pliable flesh culture, stratification, and body modification /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1181666499.
Full textIson, Joshua A. "Poking, Prodding, and Piercing: Becoming a Successful Body Modifier." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2551.
Full textKeller, Zoe A. "Correlations between body mass index and psychological distress in adolescents." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527717.
Full textThe purpose of the current study was to address the relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) status and psychological distress within the adolescent population. Data was acquired from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) 2011-2012, a state-wide phone survey which addresses health issues among the resident population. The present study used data from 2,1 04 California adolescents, utilizing variables relating to demographics, general health condition, and mental health.
Results indicated a statistically significant relationship between BMI and psychological distress, with overweight adolescents experiencing more distress and depression than their underweight/healthy weight counterparts. Gender and perceived general health condition were both significantly related to distress, with females and those of poor perceived general health condition experiencing greater psychological distress, regardless of weight status. This study has implications for social work policy and practice, especially in work with youth and families.
Rowson, Emily. "Impossible girls and tin dogs : constructions of the gendered body in Doctor Who." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2017. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/36277/.
Full textWindsor, Elroi J. "Regulating Healthy Gender: Surgical Body Modification among Transgender and Cisgender Consumers." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/sociology_diss/55.
Full textStokes, Donald Milton. "Media's Impact, Body Image, and Latina Ethnic Sub-group Affiliation." Thesis, University of Connecticut, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3569930.
Full textBody image refers to how a person perceives herself physically. A woman's perception of her physical appearance and her adherence to a cultural ideal of beauty informs her body image. Several determinants shape the development of body image, including sociocultural, psychological, and interpersonal factors, as well as adolescent physique and maturation, history of abuse, and certain types of media exposure (e.g., fashion magazines and a variety of television programming).
Much scholarly critique has argued that popular media perpetuate a "thin ideal" to viewers. Consumers receive distorted information. Heavy media consumers, through sheer volume of exposure, may be more aware of and likely to internalize the societal ideal, which could lead to disturbed body image and eating disorders. Substantial body image and media effects research focuses on print images, while television images are far less studied. Furthermore, Caucasian females are studied more frequently than members of other ethnic groups, such as Latinas (Hispanic females). Existing research examining Latinas tends to aggregate ethnic sub-groups (e.g. Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, etc.) into one homogenous group despite differences in national origin. The present study addresses a paucity of research focusing on ethnicity and ethnic sub-group identification related to body image across disciplines.
A sample comprising 305 self-identified Latinas completed an online survey about television consumption and body image. Television consumption was not predictive of social comparison; however, television consumption did predict awareness of the Eurocentric idealized thin body type. Moreover, sociocultural pressure from friends and family predicted awareness of the idealized thin. Awareness of the idealized thin was positively associated with social comparison, and internalization was positively associated with social comparison. Likewise, social comparison was positively associated with body dissatisfaction and with drive for thinness. The results lend further support for the sociocultural paradigm of body image disturbance. Limitations of the present work are posed along with suggestions for future research.
Allen, Steven William. "A pleasure in pain : contemporary mainstream cinema's fascination with the aestheticized spectacle of the controlled body." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1228/.
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Full textBody Expression (BE) is a relatively recent discipline in Spain. It was institutionalised over the course of the years 1960-1970. We have analysed the process of professionalisation and means of appropriation/socialisation of BE practitioners. The material subject to analysis consists of the direct observation of corporal practices, semi-directive interviews and qualitative questionnaires. This thesis brings to light the corpo-expressive careers of BE practitioners. We will mainly study the process of transformation of the self that modifies their disposition. We will also examine the structure of the space in which BE is practised. This space is mainly formed by middle and upper class women with a large amount of cultural capital who are "quicker" than men to commit to activities that entail "emotional work"
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