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| Title: | Affects: the media, family and peers have on preadolescent girls' body image issues |
| Authors: | Knowles, Elise |
| Keywords: | Body image in adolescence
Body image--Social aspects
Preteens
Social comparison
Symbolic interactionism
Reducing diets |
| Issue Date: | 10-Dec-2007 |
| Abstract: | My thesis focuses on the affects the media,
family, and peers have on preadolescent girls in the United
States and their body image. Through library research I
discuss the history of the female body and ideal beauty
models women have faced through recent decades. I focus on
what kind of media images preadolescent girls are being
exposed to today and the process of internalization that
determines one’s body ideal. I discuss family and peers and
focus on the negative influence each has on preadolescent
girls body dissatisfaction. I tie together all three social
influences through two sociological theories, Symbolic
Interactionism theory and Social Comparison theory. Using
both theories, I focus on the development of the self and
the development of ones behaviors and attitudes. I
conclude my research with an overview of how media, family,
and peers can have a negative influence on preadolescent
girls and their body image. |
| Description: | Senior Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology
from Washington College.
Advisor: Dr. Erin Anderson
May 2, 2007 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10090/3201 |
| Appears in Collections: | Washington College Sociology Senior Capstone Experience
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