Social Issue Analysis Paper
Sociological Problem Article Review: Eating Disorder among Women
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People and especially women in today’s society are largely concerned with how they look, their body size, and how they are perceived by others. The problem is, however, largely associated with women than men, and has raised the debate regarding the aspects of womanhood in the society that has made eating disorder a social problem. To understand this problem, we need to consider the rising standards of beauty, which seem to emphasize on slender body. Significant fashion brands such as Vogue require their models to attain a certain size in order to model their designs, while movies and other media portray a different image of the “ideal woman”. This has …show more content…
In their perspective, a patient suffering from anorexia nervosa has a body mass that is 85% less compared to what it is supposed to be, and is constantly afraid that any increase in body mass will make her fat, even though, she is underweight (2003). Symbolic interactionism, according to Spuy, Klerk and Kruger (2003), aggravates on the problem. The theory of symbolic interactionism considers how people interact with each other. considering how this theory makes eating disorder a problem in the society, Spuy, Klerk and Kruger argues that the actions of people are not only determined by social interactions, but also by interacting with the self, something that consist with the physical self (2003). The physical self is something that most people judge, reject, like, love and even hate. In that sense, while most female adolescents are concerned with what they see or read in fashion magazines, as well as the opinion of the media regarding beauty, they seem interact with their physical self as well as others, thus coming to the opinion that by deny herself some foods, she will gain the body that symbolizes
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Institution
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People and especially women in today’s society are largely concerned with how they look, their body size, and how they are perceived by others. The problem is, however, largely associated with women than men, and has raised the debate regarding the aspects of womanhood in the society that has made eating disorder a social problem. To understand this problem, we need to consider the rising standards of beauty, which seem to emphasize on slender body. Significant fashion brands such as Vogue require their models to attain a certain size in order to model their designs, while movies and other media portray a different image of the “ideal woman”. This has …show more content…
In their perspective, a patient suffering from anorexia nervosa has a body mass that is 85% less compared to what it is supposed to be, and is constantly afraid that any increase in body mass will make her fat, even though, she is underweight (2003). Symbolic interactionism, according to Spuy, Klerk and Kruger (2003), aggravates on the problem. The theory of symbolic interactionism considers how people interact with each other. considering how this theory makes eating disorder a problem in the society, Spuy, Klerk and Kruger argues that the actions of people are not only determined by social interactions, but also by interacting with the self, something that consist with the physical self (2003). The physical self is something that most people judge, reject, like, love and even hate. In that sense, while most female adolescents are concerned with what they see or read in fashion magazines, as well as the opinion of the media regarding beauty, they seem interact with their physical self as well as others, thus coming to the opinion that by deny herself some foods, she will gain the body that symbolizes