Entry #6

Key Terms:

Social-Cultural Pressure
Perfectionism

Define
Social-Cultural Pressure: the need to strive for norm due to society expectation.
Perfectionism: refusal to accept any standard short of perfection. [dictionary.com]

I found these terma in the Psychology Journal on Ebcohost.

Media portrayal of the ultra-thin body image as the ideal body image is an example of social-cultural pressure to be thin to feel included in society. As a result women strive to achieve the idea of "perfectionism"; which based on outer appearance. Women go through risky diet and over excersise to achieve this body that we percieved as "beauty". In return it's just a trap for the different type of eating disorder.

If we asked most females nowadays on what is their ideal body type, we will hear a large number of similar answers. Especially in a society like the U.S, women tend to associate thinness as their desire body figure since we equate thinness with beauty. Why is that we must ask? Media constantly reflect images of famous thin portrayed as beautiful protagonist as a result we strive to measure up to the norm without realizing that the media doesn’t defined beauty instead we do. The fact that we are being surrounded by the media constantly as a result the ultra-thin ideal body image is being drilled to our psychological thinking causing us to belief that thinness guide to acceptance among our peer also to the larger society as well.