Definition of concept: Body image is defined as the perceptions of and attitudes toward one's own physical appearance (Cash, Phillips, Santos & Hrabosky, 2004). Concept analysis approach: Literature review included 32 research articles from the fields of nursing, medicine, psychology, and sociology...
What sociology theory is environmental adaptation under? Which of Durkheim's theories still apply to our society today? What is social-process theory? What major sociology concept is groupthink a part of? What is an example of functionalism?
42We try to convey a certain image of self, display our status43and thereforeuse personal information to put ourselves in the right frame.44In commu-nication, interacting partners are “interested in his general socio-economicstatus, his conception of self, his attitude toward them, his ...
Moreover, cybersex entrepreneurs were the driving force behind key technical innovations, such as interactive CD-ROM soft-ware and improved on-screen image definition". This exemplifies how the disparate power- dynamics and material resources of patriarchal and hetero- normative Western society mean ...
Sexualizing the body is double edged, however, as it will create a desire in men to take part in benevolent sexism, but will also reduce women’s perceived competence. Thus, high heels should be coupled with conservative dress to preserve the image of professionalism. ...
(Reinhard 1982), discipline emerges in Domenica’s works as an individual effortto pursue a Christian model of virtue and perfection. As a result, she contributedto the phenomenon of social disciplining in sixteenth-century Italy. This category,later theorized in Weber’s sociology of power (...
The interpretative analysis is informed by both Merleau-Ponty's concept of the body-subject and the sociology of the body as discursively constituted. Findings This study proposes four bodily identity positions that link individual personal grooming practices to specific embodied concerns. These bodily ...
Nevertheless, the wearing of clothes is definitionally an embodied practice, and hence body and clothing are inexorably linked. The overarching aim of the present study was to investigate aspects of body image and clothing function, as well as their link, across the young adult and middle-aged ...
Image and Vision Computing. 2013. http://bodylanguageproject.com/articles/body-language-signals-withdrawal-depression/ Gregersen, Tammy S. Nonverbal Cues: Clues to the Detection of Foreign Language Anxiety. Foreign Language Annals. 2005. 38(3): 388-400 http://bodylanguageproject.com/articles/...
Neuroimage. A Journal of Brain Function. 2009. 49:1717-1727. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage. http://bodylanguageproject.com/articles/friend-foe-let-body-language-decide Sell, A., Tooby, J., and Cosmides, L. Formidability and the Logic of Human Anger. Proceedings of the National Academy ...