Society And Society : The Influence Of Society In Society

The mass media consists of any means of communication that has the ability to reach a large amount of people. The term ‘media’ can refer to movies, television, the newspaper, etc. It is because of it’s ability to out reach to a mass quantity of people that it is able to “reinforce and teach societal values.” At a young age, socialization occurs in that it involves the “learning of the values and the norms of society” and adopting them into their own personal values (Perse, 2001.) Children often have little life experience so they learn and imitate their environment whether that be the characters on television or societal institutions like their families or teachers at school. Adolescents are more susceptible to socialization in that they are at a period in which they are trying to find

Throughout the years, the definition of beauty constantly changes. In our society today many children are told to be true to themselves, to be unique, to be who they are, etc.; But on the other hand social media and the celebrities on there are a constant reminder that there is a certain type of beautiful. The juxtaposition between being yourself and being what is “beautiful” has consistent grey areas and blurred lines making it almost impossible to keep up with what’s “beautiful”. The media, whether intentional or not, portrays this certain body image that you have to be in order to qualify as beautiful.

Photoshop is known to fix even the slightest imperfections. This sets impossibly high standards for what women expect for themselves. Photoshopped images are destroying America’s body image. The media sets up high beauty and body standards for women. The media takes beautiful women and tells them they are not beautiful enough. Being beautiful nowadays is having a face covered in make-up, being “skinny” is having a thigh gap, and to be perfect is to have no flaws. Women need to start realizing they are beautiful with their flaws, but it’s a hard process to love your flaws and imperfections. Dove made a commercial about loving something as simple as your curls. A handful of young women (ages 5 to 11) were asked about how they feel about their

But on this canvas, people tend to paint beautiful lies about themselves, blotting over the imperfections. Now, this may not seem like such a bad thing. What’s wrong with people telling lies here and there if it boosts their self-confidence? But that’s where researchers are finding the problem. “”The onslaught of Photoshopped images gives us a false standard to aspire to," she says. “We know logically we'll never look like those women-but those images are powerful in shaping our expectations of ourselves.” …says relationship expert Natasha Burton, author of 101 Quizzes for Couples.” (Tomko) The phenomenon that people are finding to be true is that the constant bombardment of seemingly perfect people is making people wonder why they aren’t as perfect as the people they see in the pictures. And it’s not just social media. Society in general has this proclivity towards perfection. People that fall out of that sphere of perfection that the media projects begin to feel inadequate about themselves. “Girls already insecure about their weight can feel even worse when they compare themselves to ultrathin models” (Thin Fashion Models). This insecurity and self-loathing may even lead to eating disorders, like anorexia and bulimia. Media puts so much pressure on people, especially young girls, to strive to be something they’re not simply because they were taught that it was the only way they would be loved or cared about. “While

CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CINDY JACKSON WEBSITE No two people are the same. Each person is made up of different pieces that come together to make a whole. The question still remains, what makes up one’s “self?” The self is composed of 4 primary factors, self-concept, self-knowledge, self-esteem, and social self.

According to a study performed by Brown and Witherspoon, “on average, a child or adolescent watches up to 5 hours of television per day and spends an average of 6 to 7 hours viewing various media combined” (Morris and Katzman 1).Young people consume huge amounts of media per day, more than most other groups. This statistic means that they are exposed to standards in the media a lot more, allowing for the media to have a pretty heavy impact on them. Not only are adolescents more exposed to the media, but they are also at a very impressionable time in their lives. A lot of young women and girls think that they are overweight, even if most of them are within normal weight ranges; “44% of adolescent girls believed they were overweight and 60% were actively trying to lose weight,” according to one study (Morris and Katzman 2). Even without accounting for the possible effect of the media, negative body image or low self-esteem is an epidemic amongst a lot of young girls that have no physical reason to lose weight. But because young girls are the most impressionable group of people, there is a veritable plethora of possible causes to the increase in negative body image in adolescents that may include the

Why do people want to please others by transforming themselves into someone that is totally not them when they are first born? We are born in such way and we should be proud of ourselves no matter that our eyes are uneven, our nose is flat or having a gigantic thick lips because that is what makes us unique. Corresponding to that, most of the teenagers are losing themselves to acquire sheer unnecessary attentions and compliments from the community nowadays. As an evidence, it is reported that Triana Lavey has undergone a plastic surgery just to look better online and increase her popularity (Vega, 2014), similar to Quinn in Glee. In fact, the society should refine themselves with wisdom and confidence because these two aspects never fades despite that a person is aging, unlike beauty which is just being admired

When teens go online they are faced with edited photos of their idols, or even people they don’t know. Popular social media sites such as tumblr, instagram, twitter, and facebook all have photos of “perfect” girls. Teens log onto these sites are immediately immersed in photos of everything they want to be. Instagram provides the opportunity for girls to edit their photos in such a way that a person would hardly be able to tell who it is anymore. Adding lighting, blurring the background, getting the picture at just the right angle. Teen girls are practically becoming professional photoshoppers at this point. “Encouraging” pictures flood the feed on the social media sites. Examples are “Every time you say no to food, you say yes to thin”, “Skinny jeans. Skinny shorts. Skinny for life.” and “Every time you skip dinner, you wake up thinner” (Marin,

Photographs on Facebook are an example of this trend. We strive so hard to maintain this pristine image of ourselves, and use social media sites as a stage to project how we want the world to see us. There is nothing wrong with looking well, but we should not change for others. How we look is now our priority. Why do we want other people to perceive us in a way that isn’t the truth? ‘Natural’ is now merely a word printed in the dictionary.

As stated before, due to the loss of confidence in society's younger generation, people try and change themselves to various extents to fit the mold photo-shopping has created for them. What was omitted from the previous paragraph was the horrendous extent of it. Unfortunately, society's expectations has led people to shun and even bully those who do not fit into the mold. This causes eating disorders and depression. Indeed, it is no wonder that this might become a “reflection of the events and spirit of our times for the future” (Grundberg 35). How far will people go to achieve the expectations photo-shopping has raised? Plastic surgery, dieting, self-harm, perhaps even going so far as suicide; all of them are caused by how these altered pictures make people view the world and the people in it. Such false advertising should be condemned. It is like false advertising for medication. Instead of overdosing on pills, society's overdosing on appearances. Having been photo-shopped, images of models drastically change the population's views on what beauty entails, resulting in health problems beyond measure, some even going as far as to result in

When a person is hiding from the rest of society, they begin to show their true personality. It is the opposite when they are in society, a person knows that their true actions would not be acceptable. “ Master Thomas ridiculed the idea that there was any danger of Mr. Covey’s killing me and said that he knew Mr. Covey; that he was a good man…” (Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and African Slave, 5)Mr. Covey has to change his behaviors when he is with other members of society because he knows what he would really do would not be accepted. This proves that in order to fit in with society people have to change their true actions, otherwise the fear of being exiled would grow. When this fear takes over and they are forced to change, people are blinded from who they really are. This causes people to have their thoughts completely shaped by society without any reason. One character from the book “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain does that exact example of having their thoughts altered without any reason. The character, Buck, said “Laws, how do I know? It was so long ago.” (Twain, 108). Buck only knew that there was a family feud, he had no idea what is about or how it started, all he knew was that he was mad at another family and would do anything to kill them. Buck was at a loss for developing his

The article dicussed Photoshopping the appearance or body image of models and the book discussed surgery which changed the appearance of Uglies into New Pretties. In the book the Uglies, the citizens of Uglyville wait until they are sixteen to be changed to ‘pretty.’“ Being ‘pretty’ requires the Ugilies, as mentioned on page 24 of the book, to be rubbed raw and grew new skin, perfect and clear. This is a way the surgery changes a person. In the article, Seventeen Magazines uses Photoshop to change how people look in

Think back to how many times you have looked at a magazine or an advertisement and saw a person who had an unbelievably fit body and a chiseled face. At some point, everyone has looked at these pictures and wanted to look like that person just because there is something in their minds that want to have the perfect body. There is truly no one who is perfect in this world. The person on the cover of the magazine or in the advertisement is a victim of photo manipulation. Photo manipulation is a huge problem nowadays and people are trying different ways to get the “perfection” that they see in advertisements, magazine covers, etcetera. This has happened for years at a time. Knowing the fact that a lot of what you see nowadays is fake is qhard to

My essential goal in the beginning of this course was to present a better image of who I really am on my social media profiles and to reflect my in-person persona online. Compared to before this class started and to how far I have come, I would absolutely claim that I have been successful in presenting a better representation of my in-person self on my social media sites. When I post a picture on Facebook or upload an image to Instagram I choose not to edit the picture beforehand. In the past, I would brighten any image, add a filter, change the contrast, and make myself look tanner, and so on because I thought that altering the picture would make myself appear prettier. However, changing and editing the pictures reflects an image that does not truly represent who I am in-person. The true goal for everyone should be to achieve an image that reflects the most accurate representation of the in-person self and online version, reaching a parallel.

Adolescence is a time where an individual’s sense of identity starts to emerge and a majority of their social norms are perceived. In this day and age, adolescents live in a world heavily submerged around media, which plays an important and habitual part of an adolescents' life. In a national survey conducted in 2009, adolescents on average spend more than 7.5 hours using some sort of media a day (Rideout, Foehr, Roberts, 2010). With this unprecedented access to the world, individuals are learning and connecting with many different people and ideas through the media (Brown & Bobkowsi, 2011). With different forms of media playing an influential part in an adolescents’ life, their perceived social norms may be seriously influenced.