The Effects of Conformity on Women’s Body Images Under Different Social Norms and Different Cultures
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.039How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Social Norm; mass media; conformity; body image; mental health
- Abstract
When young children hear stories about Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, they always remember that “No woman will dislike being too thin and having too much money” as a cliche. Like Wallis, staying skinny under today’s Western culture, especially the American culture, advocates strongly the conformity on women’s body image[9]. Normative social influence has huge effects of conformity on women’s body image, which makes women strive to pursue the attractive figure prescribed by culture. Different countries have different conformity on women’s body images while most countries treat fat as beauty. Almost every woman from different cultures is pursuing the attractive figure prescribed by their culture and never feels confident about their body. This shows that almost every woman is affected by conformity on their body images under different social norms and cultures. However, to fit in this body conformity, many people used extreme ways, like almost not eating anything or even worse. This paper aims to analyzes the effects of conformity on women’s body images under different social norms and different cultures. Many people think the affections on women’s body images could push women to have a healthier lifestyle. However, it is not necessary to chase body conformity blindly.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Jingyi Zhang PY - 2021 DA - 2021/12/24 TI - The Effects of Conformity on Women’s Body Images Under Different Social Norms and Different Cultures BT - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 238 EP - 241 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.039 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.039 ID - Zhang2021 ER -