Exploring equality in men's and women's pursuits of ideal body images : a case study on Singapore's undergraduates.
The need to look good has gained increasing importance and caused wider implications in today’s society. Sociocultural forces such as the media play significant roles in influencing and shaping individuals’ body image perceptions. Extant literatures place a disproportionate amount of focus on women’...
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| author | Wong, Yuen Yin. |
| author2 | Tan Joo Ean |
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| description | The need to look good has gained increasing importance and caused wider implications in today’s society. Sociocultural forces such as the media play significant roles in influencing and shaping individuals’ body image perceptions. Extant literatures place a disproportionate amount of focus on women’s experiences, and adopt a largely psychological and quantitative approach. Studies have found that women are less satisfied with their body images, pay more attention to their body images and invest more both mentally and behaviorally in their body images. With a sociological lens, this paper seeks to find out if the pursuit of ideal body images is gender equal in Singapore i.e. assessing similarities and differences between the two genders. Interviews were conducted with undergraduates from local universities and findings indicate that while the experiences of men and women may be increasingly similar, a deeper analysis on deeply ingrained social expectations and cultural norms shows otherwise. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/517402019-12-10T13:52:08Z Exploring equality in men's and women's pursuits of ideal body images : a case study on Singapore's undergraduates. Wong, Yuen Yin. Tan Joo Ean School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences The need to look good has gained increasing importance and caused wider implications in today’s society. Sociocultural forces such as the media play significant roles in influencing and shaping individuals’ body image perceptions. Extant literatures place a disproportionate amount of focus on women’s experiences, and adopt a largely psychological and quantitative approach. Studies have found that women are less satisfied with their body images, pay more attention to their body images and invest more both mentally and behaviorally in their body images. With a sociological lens, this paper seeks to find out if the pursuit of ideal body images is gender equal in Singapore i.e. assessing similarities and differences between the two genders. Interviews were conducted with undergraduates from local universities and findings indicate that while the experiences of men and women may be increasingly similar, a deeper analysis on deeply ingrained social expectations and cultural norms shows otherwise. Bachelor of Arts 2013-04-09T04:58:40Z 2013-04-09T04:58:40Z 2013 2013 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51740 en Nanyang Technological University 32 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences Wong, Yuen Yin. Exploring equality in men's and women's pursuits of ideal body images : a case study on Singapore's undergraduates. |
| title | Exploring equality in men's and women's pursuits of ideal body images : a case study on Singapore's undergraduates. |
| title_full | Exploring equality in men's and women's pursuits of ideal body images : a case study on Singapore's undergraduates. |
| title_fullStr | Exploring equality in men's and women's pursuits of ideal body images : a case study on Singapore's undergraduates. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring equality in men's and women's pursuits of ideal body images : a case study on Singapore's undergraduates. |
| title_short | Exploring equality in men's and women's pursuits of ideal body images : a case study on Singapore's undergraduates. |
| title_sort | exploring equality in men s and women s pursuits of ideal body images a case study on singapore s undergraduates |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences |
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