Sociological Explanation of Factors Affecting Body Management (Case Study: Men between 18 and 45 years old in Tehran)

Subject Areas : ‌Family

Ali Nouri ¹ , alireza mohsenitabrizi ^{2 *}

1 - PhD Student of Sociology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Tehran, Iran

Received: 2019-02-16 Accepted : 2019-07-15 Published : 2019-09-21

Keywords: Identity, Body Management, Cultural capital, socio-economic status, Modern society,

Abstract :

The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of social factors on the body management  among  men 18 to 45   in Tehran. in conditions in which an original source of getting up of relation and semantic specification of every thing comes down to appearances. body as a tool of expressing identity becomes more crucial. Theories of Goffman, Giddens, Elias, Bourdieu and Bandura formed the theoretical framework of this research. Statistical population was the members of body building gyms in Tehran and the size of random sample was 384 (Cochran’ formula was used).  Survey method was used for explaining the impact of social factors on the body management. Necessary informations were collected through questionnare and its reliability was tested by Cronbach's alpha statistic. Statistical tests which are applied in this research is correlation. Correlation test between two variables of cultural capital and body management expressed that this relation is viceversa. Although, different ideas which have been considered in researeh and there is a direct relation between body management & cultural capital in other findings but it should be noticed conversely people who have less knowledge & socio-economic status  use  improper ways  for changing of their appearance. Correlation between body management and learning behavior of others showed that the direct relationship between two variables. showing the socioeconomic status and displaying the appearance of others) in relation to  body management, showed a direct and meaningful relationship between these variables and the dependent variable of body management.