300 word response to Ms. Hatef's lecture by supporting her arguments or disrupting them. Be sure to (1) explain Ms. Hatef's argument (2) explain how Ms. Hatef supported her argument (3) explain your position (4) support your position
Material about the Ms. Hatef's argument:
The purpose of Ms. Hatef's research:
1. Investigate the role of media in influencing body image and culture
2. Understand the personal experience of cosmetic surgery patients and their relationship with media
3. Examine the possible psychological processes that motivate an individual to undergo cosmetic surgery
What is beauty?
1. Cannot be quantified or objectively measured
2. Global beauty standard
3. Body image
a) Multifaceted psychological experience
4. Body work
a) Practice of physical maintenance
Western media and cosmetic surgery
1. Effects of western media
a) Advances in media technology
b) Promotion of Western values and ideologies
i. Fiji and Belize
2. Cosmetic surgery around the world
a) China
b) Brazil
c) South Korea
Global beauty
1. Historically, beauty and body ideals have for the most part, varied culture by culture
2. Globalization of media content
3. Media work to disseminate current beauty and body ideals that are reflective of a global beauty standard
4. This standard promotes a Western ideal of beauty that is highly unrealistic, especially when that message travels abroad
Where do these beauty ideals come from?
1. Media
a) Television
b) Magazines
c) Advertising
d) Movies
e) Western media
2. Family and friends
3. Bothering
a) Somebody makes fun with your face
Finding
1. Common procedures
2. Media influences
3. Interpersonal pressures
a) Social comparison
b) Self-ideal discrepancy
Cultural imperialism
1. The political and economic power a care nation uses to establish and maintain economic, political and cultural dominance over a population through its reliance on information/ media.