The site I have chosen for my mini-ethnography is a beauty salon named Grace Hair Design and Beauty Parlour, which is located in Mississauga at 4646 Heritage Hills Blvd. This beauty parlour is very popular among women in Mississauga as this parlour is very well known for their eye brow shaping and threading services. Many women travel from far distances to get their eye brows threaded and waxed at Grace Beauty Parlour. It is a very busy salon and therefore has a specific method to accommodate customers. The research theme I have chosen to explore is gender differences in use of space and social roles. Furthermore, I would like to research and analyze how men and women (employees and customers) utilize space differently from one another, and how social roles and responsibilities differ between men and women in Grace Beauty Parlour.
What does your critical analysis of the website reveal to you about Cindy Jackson’s sense of her social self, her self-concept, her self-esteem and her self-presentation?
More than 375,000 nail technicians face possible health hazards everyday (“Health Hazards”). Today’s salons are investing in the latest products. Sanitation is the most important in any salon to prevent disease or injury to cosmetologists and for clients. The ingredients in these hair products are becoming stronger for some clients to handle. Cosmetologists need to understand how to keep ourselves and our clients safe. Tools, implements, and cleaning furniture is the most important. Customers are always going to be coming in and out of the salon. Cosmetologist will not always know who the person is in the salon. Wash and sanitize your hands before and after a client. Wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) will also help prevent disease (Frangie). To prevent disease and bacteria, cosmetologists need to sanitize the tools and furniture before and after they give a service to a client.
work at, you discuss benefits with the person who hires you, but if you own your
Today, people associate the word “salon” with a place to get your hair, makeup, or nails done. It is also a place for women to gossip and talk about the latest fashions, music, and other pop culture. When you think about it, modern-day salons actually seem very similar to salons of the 18th century in France. Salons in the 18th century were held for discussions relating to art, fashion, politics, etc. These salons played a fundamental role in the cultural and intellectual development of France. Although salons provided a place for both women and men to congregate for intellectual discourse, women were the center of the life in the salon. These women carried a very important role as regulators. They selected their guests and decided the subjects of their meetings. Women also had the role as mediator by directing the discussion. The salon was an informal university for women in which they were able to exchange ideas, receive and give criticism, read their own works and hear the works and ideas of other intellectuals. These gatherings are responsible for the advancement of female expression and power in France.
What does being a Cosmetologist entail? “Cosmetology is defined as the art and science of beautifying and improving application.”( Milady Standard cosmetology publish 2016 edition, Ted Gibson) Cosmetologist provide therapeutic services to their clients. Cosmetologist are not just hairstylist, they are therapist, lifetime friends, and possibly someone's personal fashion artist--regarding their hair and the newest trends. Cosmetologist consist of different jobs. Depending on how high their are in the industry affects their salary. How far does this industry expand? The industry of cosmetology evolved and unfurl throughout time.
There are two important areas in this research- territoriality and use of personal space, all while each have an important bearing on the kinds of messages we send as we use space. Standing at least three feet apart from someone is a norm for personal space.
Every since I was a child I have had a passion for doing other people’s hair. When I was little I would use my baby dolls as clients and work on their hair until it was perfect and neat. I have chosen to be in the cosmetology field because I like to help other people with their needs and wants as well as mine. I am aware that while working in this industry I will work with many different ethnic groups and many different hair types. I feel I can do anything as long as I have the determination to do so. Many people go to cosmetology school to work for someone else, but I would like to open up a mini-salon out of my own home someday.
There is a certain stage in the life of every woman when she decides she wants to enhance or change her look. For some, it is a very young age in life and for the others it comes at a much later time. None the less, almost every woman goes through that stage where they want to change they way they appear to society. Often times they are influenced by what they see in the media. They pick their favorite celebrities and follow them through their fashion and looks. In this day and age, everything is influenced by music, tv and the characters everyone pretends to be. Which is great for the hair and make up industry because people constantly change their minds about how they want to look and present themselves to the rest of the world. As times change and the trends change also, certain styles in hair, make up and fashion change as well. Some only last for a little time and others never faze out. It is very important to understand what it is “In”, and what is not. Especially if you are in the cosmetology and fashion world. Certain ways to keep your self up to date with the latest and greatest is to, like a lot of the clients, follow a lot of those hip and fashionable celebrities through their social medias like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Gossip and fashion magazines are also a great help, as well as celebrity reality tv shows and other popular shows on tv or even talk shows and definitely award shows. The music industry is also a huge way to stay on top of what trends are current. For example, music videos are practically history videos of fashions during the time they were produced and directed. You can look back at videos from certain decades and see what was in trend during that time. Often times that lea...
We interviewed the manager of Sally Beauty, whose name is Christina Simmons. Sally Beauty Supply LLC began as one store in New Orleans in 1964. Today, Sally Beauty is the world’s largest retailer of professional beauty supplies. Sally Beauty currently owns and operates more than 2,800 Sally Beauty Supply stores worldwide, including stores in every state in the United States; Puerto Rico and Canada. Sally Beauty Supply offers over 7,000 professional quality products for hair, skin and nails to retail customers and salon professionals. Their customers appreciate their knowledgeable sales associates who help them solve their hair and beauty frustrations.
For my Gender Fieldwork observations, I planned on staying in one specific part of Dilworth Park in order to notice gendered actions of individuals. My chosen location was less populated than I had expected as I had forgotten that generally, city activity goes down during the night. This was not, however, the most surprising part of the fieldwork. I was prepared to find absolute evidence of constructed gender roles immediately. What I observed is less concrete than I had initially hoped. While there are still obvious differences between men and women, the smaller actions I was looking for such as how people were sitting or what they were drinking, appeared in both male and female individuals. This shows that while gender roles are overall still
By using observation method, a wide variety of behavior can be recorded. Picking through the garbage on the side of the road can reveal behaviors of fast-food customers, or sitting for only one hour in the university canteen can understand the gender differences in choosing (diet) meal, or even watching the customer’s behavior from deciding which yogurt to be taken off its store shelves in the supermarket can also answer the question: Are the customers be attracted by its appearance or flavor or price or brand or nutrition? The aim of this observation assignment is to evaluate and explain the different types of interactions between individual and groups present, as well as the environment in which these interactions take place. The field observation was conducted at the Vietnamese fast-food restaurant named “We love Banhmi” in Budapest, and the role adopted, was that of observer as a non-participant. Group structures as well as overall activity, patterns of behavior, and the duration and timing of such behaviors and interactions were observed and recorded. Sociological concepts pertaining to age, gender, and appearance were also noted and applied.
The world now is getting hotter, which will affect our skin, skincare is essential to ensure that skin protected from excessive UV rays. The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (2015) defines skincare as the use of creams and special products to look after the skin. Skincare is important not only for women but for men as well as facial skin exposed to the sun without protection faces is much risk.
Exact Beauty: Exploring Women's Body Projects and Problems in the 21st Century. Mandell, Nancy (5th ed.). Feminist Issues: Race, Class, and Sexuality (131-160). Toronto: Pearson Canada, Inc. Schulenberg, Jennifer, L. (2006).
The use of the vignettes clearly was not helpful in that they dictated the discussion to a certain degree, thus biasing the results even further. The questioning also ‘led’ the participants by highlighting gender differences, increasing the potential social desirability bias. In this authors opinion the study was poorly constructed but described a very socially relevant topic.
Gender also operates at an institutional level, which can be just as influential as the process of socialisation within the home. Inevitably, every individual will somehow be shaped by the institutions that they find themselves involved within, for example education and the workplace. Acker (1990 p146) provides a useful definition of the gendering of organisations. She explains how a gendered organisation or institution means that ‘advantage and disadvantage, exploitation and control, action and emotion, meaning and identity’ are all patterned in terms of distinguishing between male and female, as well as masculine and feminine. Interactionist approaches focus on the forces which operate external to the individuals. Interactionists argue people’s