Meta-analysis of Iranian society's tendency to manage the body

Subject Areas : ‌Family

Tahereh Jahanparvar ¹ , طاها عشایری ²

1 - PhD Student in Cultural Sociology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of History and Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Ardabil, Iran.

Received: 2021-05-30 Accepted : 2021-09-17 Published : 2021-08-23

Keywords: meta-analysis, Differentiation, Body Management, normative pressure, media resources,

Abstract :

The body is a social category and a bio-cultural thing. In proportion to the culture and norm of society, the body also changes. In today's world, the body has become an important thing in social relations, social health and a cheerful lifestyle, as well as gaining social status and approval. Social, the body has become more the focus of society, the current study using meta-analysis method seeks to investigate the reasons for the tendency of Iranian society to manage the body. The statistical population is 68 documents, of which 39 researches were selected by deliberate-judgmental method in the period of 1387 to 1400. Findings in the descriptive section show that in 1392, the most study (23%) was done in this period and was performed in Tehran (23%). Women were the main target of the study (69%) and the research method was cluster type (41%). The tendency to change in the body (body management) is high (35%), medium (29%) and low (36%). The effect size of studies from 39 studies indicates that media resources, cultural capital, social capital, capital, structural resources, consumption style, psychological factors, differentiation, socialization and underlying factors have a significant effect on Iranians' tendency to manage the body.