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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Beauty, Personal"”.
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Self-Improvement and Teen Magazines: A Matter of Fashion and Beauty: A Content Analysis of Sassy, Seventeen and YM--Teen Magazines for Adolescent Females
This research is a content analysis of three teen magazines: Sassy, Seventeen and YM. It replicates an earlier study by Evans, Rutberg, Sather and Turner, to determine if teen magazines targeting a young, female audience still promote self-improvement through fashion and physical beautification. …
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De-objectifying bodies : how African American women view their own skin color
… that impact African American perceptions of beauty. Rather than focusing on psychical features this paper explores the various social-structural forces that impact a sense of attractiveness. I found that age and a sense of community, not skin color, were the significant predictors of Black …
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A semiotic analysis of print beauty advertisements
… society. This essay will take into consideration beauty advertisements, and how advertisers try to create this idealized phenomenon of female beauty; most of which comes from Western culture. The analysis will focus on semiotic terms that best describe and are applicable for an advertisement, and …
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An investigation of images of women : the development of an awareness campaign to boost self-esteem amongst South African women
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree Master of Technology: Graphic Design, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2014.
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The medicalization of oral aesthetics: an application of structuration theory
Medicalization has been discussed at length in the sociology of health and illness literature. Typically, dialogue has centered on the effects of medicalization and the process as a phenomenon in professional fields alone. This work is an attempt to study medicalization using a theoretical model, …
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Physical Attractiveness: Its Influence on the Perception of Counselors
60 undergraduate students evaluated male and female counselors on fifteen counselor variables based on listening to a tape recording of a counselor self-introduction paired with an attractive or unattractive picture. Two groups served as control groups; they heard the tape but received no picture. …