Female bodies have been conceptualized as an unfinished biological and social phenomena, which is transformed within the participation in our society. The way we walk, talk and gesture are all influenced by our upbringing. Sociologist argue that we conceptualize our bodies and use as markers of distinction in contemporary society of our self and identity tied to our body (Featherstone, 2010). The idea that our bodies are continuously in a state of unfinished process, and are a project which should be worked on and should be accomplished as part of an individual’s self identity (Shilling, 2003). According to Nettleton, (2006) who states that the attitudes towards our bodies influence the disclosure of health promotion and cultural aspects of our live. The moment that we are conceived to the time we die, our social process impinges on our health and well-being. The social locations of our parents will effect our life choices. Our understanding of beliefs about health and illness will be held by our peers and those, whom we live with, these aspects will shape our own understanding of our health and well-being. There are two polarized perspectives on our body, such as naturalistic presumes the body is a real biological entity, in which we exist as an universal phenomena irrespective of the social context in which it resides. The second polarized is the social-constructionist which approaches by the contrast of the body that is socially created or invented. Williams, (2003) argue that the body has been variously described as affect of power, knowledge and the cite we live our experiences. However according to Davis, (1997:15) argue that our bodies are not simply abstractions that how is seen as embedded in the immediacies of every lif...
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In today society, beauty in a woman seems to be the measured of her size, or the structure of her nose and lips. Plastic surgery has become a popular procedure for people, mostly for women, to fit in social class, race, or beauty. Most women are insecure about their body or face, wondering if they are perfect enough for the society to call the beautiful; this is when cosmetic surgery comes in. To fix what “needed” to be fixed. To begin with, there is no point in cutting your face or your body to add or remove something most people call ugly. “The Pitfalls of Plastic Surgery” explored the desire of human to become beyond perfection by the undergoing plastic surgery. The author, Camille Pagalia, took a look how now days how Americans are so obsessed
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Overtime, sociology has played an essential role in the aid of healthcare policies and procedures, along with playing a fundamental role in one’s understanding of health inequalities. This paper explores how sociology has played such a role in healthcare, whilst including discussions regarding the influence of social structures and inequalities in the health of an individual, their family and community, with the topic of health variations between social classes being the main focus of the discussion. A structured overview, review and evaluation of a specific health policy in the UK will also be provided within this paper. Sociology in healthcare. Sociology can be defined in a number of ways, due to its almost limitless scope (Denny, Earle,
The female body is socially constructed in different ways over categories concerning race, sexuality and gender. Society has a huge control over women’s body and sometimes influences them to make “choices” that are harmful to themselves. This paper focuses on Fausto-Sterling’s The Bare Bones of Sex and how medical research has failed to consider the impacts of social factors and not just biological ones on bone health; Thompson’s A Way Outa No Way… in which eating disorders are solely claimed to be due to society’s norm of physical appearance and the restriction of eating problems to just white upper- and middle-class heterosexual women; and lastly Davis’s Loose Lips Sink Ship which addresses the increasing popularity of labiaplasty in the United states and the outrage shown towards African women who indulge in female genital mutilation. The following paragraphs will discuss the ways in which the female body has been neglected in society and “choices” made to conform to society’s norms.
Through the use of our sociological imagination this paper investigates whose interests the medical model of health serves, and why? The concept of sociological imagination was coined by Charles Wright Mills, the American Sociologist (1916-1962). To use our sociological imagination we need to look at, at least one or more of the following four perspectives: Cultural/Anthropological, Historical, Critical, or Structural and make the link between personal troubles and public issues. (Germov, 2014) In doing this we take a look at the concepts of medicalisation, medical -industrial complex and pharmaceuticalisation.
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Most of us don't like some aspect of our appearance, whether it's sagging eyes or excess weight in particular areas, to name a few complaints. Lately a record numbers of Americans are doing something about it by having plastic surgery. Since 1995, the number of cosmetic procedures, which range from liposuction to facelifts, has almost tripled (English 23). Is that a healthy choice-or a dangerous trend? Aging has become the field of the future for plastic surgeons whose patients have reasons not always valid in the search for youth and beauty.
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