Nazanin Kahrizeh; Masoud Zamani Moghadam
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In recent years, women’s fitness clubs have become one of the key spaces for social interaction, bodily representation, and the reconstruction of cultural and gender identities in Iran. The present study aims to examine and analyze the ways in which social distinction is represented within the context ...
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In recent years, women’s fitness clubs have become one of the key spaces for social interaction, bodily representation, and the reconstruction of cultural and gender identities in Iran. The present study aims to examine and analyze the ways in which social distinction is represented within the context of a women’s fitness club in the city of Hamadan, and to identify the mechanisms related to the body, dress, interpersonal relations, and symbolic consumption in this setting. Using a qualitative ethnographic approach, data were collected through participant observation and semi-structured interviews with 24 women over a period of eighteen months, and were analyzed using thematic analysis. Based on the data analysis, five main themes were identified: “a field of discipline and surveillance,” “cultural duality and peaceful distinction,” “the body as aesthetic capital,” “the formation of an affective field and a care economy,” and “the body market and consumptive distinction.” The findings indicate that women participating in this sporting field represent their identity and socio-cultural boundaries through body management, and enact distinction in a practical and situational manner. In conclusion, the women’s fitness club can be understood as a space in which the body becomes a tool for the construction of meaning, the performance of identity, and the representation of socio-cultural distinction.
Fatemeh Akbarzadeh; Majid Reza Karimi; Karamat Alah Rasekh
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The research is to study the social contexts affecting the body management of young women on the verge of marriage. It was a qualitative researches that was carried out in the field. The qualitative method used in this research was phenomenological. The participants included young women on the verge ...
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The research is to study the social contexts affecting the body management of young women on the verge of marriage. It was a qualitative researches that was carried out in the field. The qualitative method used in this research was phenomenological. The participants included young women on the verge of marriage in Shiraz Whom were selected using purposeful sampling through the approach of selecting homogeneous sampling and at the same time observing the maximum diversity. This problem was formed until theoretical saturation was reached. Finally, 15 interviews were conducted in this regard. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview. In order to analyze the data, thematic analysis was used.
The results showed that there are 6 main themes and 44 sub-themes. According to the results, the social factors affecting the body management of young women on the eve of marriage were identified in 6 sections including lifestyle, fashion, social acceptability, Job, roles and social class and education.
jaber moulaei; Habib Hashemifar; Fatemeh RaoufHashemi
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The purpose of this article was to investigate the impact of cultural capital (and its three dimensions) On body management among female students of Farhangian university in Hamedan. The theories of Bourdieu, Schilling, Martin and Gantz have been used. The method of this research was survey and the data ...
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The purpose of this article was to investigate the impact of cultural capital (and its three dimensions) On body management among female students of Farhangian university in Hamedan. The theories of Bourdieu, Schilling, Martin and Gantz have been used. The method of this research was survey and the data collection tool was a questionnaire. The statistical population of the study included all female students of Farhangian university in Hamedan. The sample size was determined based on Cochran's formula and included 182 people. The sampling method was category proportional to the volume. Data were described and analyzed by SPSS and AMOS statistical software. Findings indicated that there is a significant and positive relationship between the three dimensions of cultural capital and body management. The results of structural equation modeling showed that the model has a good fit And model fit indices have shown acceptable values. Also, the data collected from the study sample had the necessary compatibility with the conceptual model of the research; Therefore, the general conceptual model proposed in this study was approved.
hasan esfandiar jahromi
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The present study aims to develop a qualitative and grounded theory approach to present a sociological and paradigmatic model of self-acceptance and management in bodybuilding girls based on the subjective perceptions and actors' interpretations of this concept . The subject of this study consisted of ...
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The present study aims to develop a qualitative and grounded theory approach to present a sociological and paradigmatic model of self-acceptance and management in bodybuilding girls based on the subjective perceptions and actors' interpretations of this concept . The subject of this study consisted of 49 bodybuildeers girls who were selected voluntarily by using theoretical and judgmental sampling . With the help of semi-structured interviews and unstructured data based on research axes of the three questions ( what and why and how ) collected is sent . A set of basic themes was retrieved during the coding process and extracted from their categories . Then, at the axial coding stage, the links between these categories were defined as causal conditions, axial phenomena, strategic category, contextual conditions, mediator category and consequential category in the paradigm . Subsequently, during the selective coding phase, components of the coding paradigm were described, and the theory created . The results of the study extracted 6 main categories and 49 subcategories for self acceptance and body management and presented them in a theoretical model based on data theory . The findings show that bodybuilding exercise has a paradox that, in turn, shifts the bodybuilder's perception of beauty, and on the other hand, the role of social structures and pressures has dominated the owners of capital and consumerism .
Mansoor Haghighatian; Seyyed Ali Hashemianfar; Masuod Darabi
Volume 14, Issue 30 , August 2016, , Pages 179-201
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With visual symbols of status and identity in late modernity, body has turned as a mean for the expression of identity and symbol of personality. Body care and monitoring provides the opportunity for people to maintain personal narrative of their bodies and put it on display. Given the importance attached ...
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With visual symbols of status and identity in late modernity, body has turned as a mean for the expression of identity and symbol of personality. Body care and monitoring provides the opportunity for people to maintain personal narrative of their bodies and put it on display. Given the importance attached to it, this article studies the relationship between lifestyle and body image among young women. The theoretical framework of the research is based on the theories of Giddens, Bourdiew, and Fouca. Study population of the research is 2659681, and the sample population is 415 women in Tehran. Cochran formula using multi-stage cluster sampling method has been applied to select the sample population. Data and information has been collected through survey and questionnaire. Also, multi-variable regression and structural equation modeling (AMOS) have been employed for analyzing the data. Test hypotheses suggest that there is a significant relationship among such variables as cultural consumption, cultural capital of body management, religious affiliation, leisure-time activities, education, age, and body image. The regression results indicate that, based on Beta value, variables like body management, religious affiliation, cultural consumption, cultural capital, education, and age have the greatest impact on explaining the body image, with the first one (body management) having the most powerful effect. In order to test major and minor theoretical pattern, structural equation modeling was used. Top fitting indicators suggest that the data support the theoretical foundations very well.
