UTSSS PHYSICAL SELF

WILLIAM JAMES

“the self is the sum total of all that man can call his, which includes his body, family, and reputation, also his clothes and his house…”

CONCRETE, TANGIBLE

•———- or ———- aspect/dimension of the person which is primarily observed and examined through the body.

WILLIAM JAMES

The body is the initial source of sensation and necessary for the origin and maintenance of personality.

ERIK ERIKSON

–Experience is anchored in the ground-plan of the body

SIGMUND FREUD

–The body is the core of human experience

MAURICE MERLEAU PONTY

–Placed the body at the center of human existence, as a way of experiencing the world.

BODY CULTURE

interest on the body

BODY IMAGE

One’s perception of his or her body elicits either pleasing/satisfying or unpleasing/unsatisfying feelings

INNER BEAUTY

INNER QUALITIES OF THE PERSON

EXTERNAL BEAUTY

PYHSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PERSON

AESTHETIC CAPITAL

It covers the privileges and wealth people receive from aesthetic traits such as their face, hair, body, clothes, grooming habits, and other markers of beauty

KENNY NICHOLS

Drawing on contemporary culture, our bodies are not only biological but also cultural in that we say, we all shape and manipulate our bodies. We are all body-builders as we build and style our bodies on a daily basis.

BODY ADORNMENT

Refers to the practice of physically enhancing the body by styling and decorating their hair, painting and embellishing the fingernails, wearing makeup, painting the body, wearing jewelry, and the use of clothing

BODY MODIFICATION

refers to the physical alteration of the body through the use of surgery, tattooing, piercing, scarification, branding,  genital mutilation, implants, and other practices

DE MELLO

All cultures everywhere have attempted to change their bodies in an attempt to meet their cultural standards of beauty, as well as their religious and/or social obligations.

LELWICA

–Clarifies that such shame is not a natural response to being fat, physically impaired, chronically sick, or old.

–It is culturally conditioned reaction to a commercially-fabricated fantasy of physical perfection.

DE MELLO

–Examined how traditional religious narratives and modern philosophical assumptions come together in the construction and pursuit of a better body in contemporary western societies.

POP CULTURE

–a culture widely accepted and patronized by the public as in pop music which is very appealing to the youth.

SELF DEFINITION

the way a person sees himself

AUDREY TRAMEL

–The predominance of “pop culture” in today’s society definitely has some effects such as the way teenagers think of themselves, how they associate with others, and how they express characteristics of their maturation.

JAVELLANA G.M

mentions that the media plays a large role in how teenagers view themselves by shaping images of what teenagers are supposed to be or do.

MAGAZINES

have the strongest negative relationship with the weight of the respondents.

DACIES AND FURNHAM

–Constant exposure to cultural standards of beauty in evaluating own body image may produce non-normative shift in the form of dieting practices which may lead to eating disorders as a result of body image dissatisfaction, the feeling of discrepancy between actual and ideal body image.