Understanding the Socialized Body
A Poststructuralist Analysis of Consumers' Self-Conceptions, Body Images, and Self-Care Practices
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3039677 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Craig J Thompson (0000-0001-9308-6736), Elizabeth C Hirschman |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 139 |
| Publication date | 1995-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Consumer Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-5301 • E-ISSN: 1537-5277 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1086/209441 |
| OpenAlex | W2169121017 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 119 |
| References cited | 19 |
The present inquiry examines the psychosocial meanings and processes that shape consumers' sense of body image and the consumption behaviors motivated by those perceptions. Poststructuralist interpretive procedures were used to analyze interviews with 30 male and female consumers, aged 6-54. This discourse analysis led to the development of three process-orientated themes: (1) the ideology of self-control, (2) the social processes of normalization and problematization, and (3) the operation of the disciplinary gaze. The systematic manifestations of these themes are illustrated across a range of consumer experiences and body-focused perceptions. Implications of these themes for the theoretical conceptualizations of body image and the nature of self-concept in contemporary consumer culture are discussed
Consumption · Discipline · Normalization · Problematization · Self-image · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification · Eating Disorders and Behaviors · Fashion and Cultural Textiles
Participatory action research
Speaking of Art as Embodied Imagination
Trying to Be Cosmopolitan
Rethinking the Origins of Involvement and Brand Commitment
Speaking of Fashion
Social Class, Market Situation, and Consumers' Metaphors of (Dis)Empowerment
Some New Thoughts on Conceptualizing Perceived Service Quality
Towards an epistemology of consumer culture theory
Eating Like an Ox
Euphemisms and abstractions in the marketing of sex toys in India
“Espelho, Espelho, Meu”… Os Hábitos De Consumo De Produtos De Beleza Do Consumidor Metrossexual
Skin lightening product use
How Body Size Cues Judgments on Person Perception Dimensions
Symbolic and Experiential Consumption of Body in Virtual Worlds
Avatar Identification on a 3D Commercial Website
We Are What We Post? Self-Presentation in Personal Web Space
Memory Bias toward Body Information in Women with Negative Physical Self
Fitness interrupted
“I need to be looking fit to exercise”
The emperor’s new cosplay
Looking good or feeling good? The dual role of the body in the taste transformation process
Beauty salon- a marketplace icon
Claiming space
(Un)Doing gender norms in postfeminist China
Disassociation from the common herd
The Making and Unmaking of Body Problems in Seventeen Magazine, 1992-2003
Negotiating Masculinities
Embodied ethnicity
No Amount of Baths Is Gonna Make You Feel Better”
Like” me
Clothing as embodied gestation
Sacred and Treasured Luxury
Dancing with discrimination
Forming digital self and parasocial relationships on YouTube
The role of maternity dress consumption in shaping the self and identity during the liminal transition of pregnancy
Longing for the West
Enchanting Ethical Consumerism
Re-thinking the relationship between self and other
A socio-marketing analysis of the concept of cute and its consumer culture implications
Cultivating hope
Leaving the milky way! The formation of a consumer counter mythology
Representación de la belleza femenina en publicidad. Efectos sobre el bienestar emocional, la satisfacción corporal y el control del peso en mujeres jóvenes
The ‘Mascara Boys’
The Role of Status Seeking in Online Communities
A Consumer Way of Thinking
Eating Like an Ox
Genişletilmiş Benlikte Diderot Etkisi
The ambiguities of self-governance
Learning to Live with an Unruly Consuming Body
Conceptualizing Consumer Body Awareness
How Low Socioeconomic Status Hinders Organ Donation
Gendered Consumer Responsibilization
Moralizing Everyday Consumption
Natural Health Discourses and the Therapeutic Production of Consumer Resistance
Working Out
Meteorology and the rhetoric of nature's cultural display
Narrative and Persuasion in Fashion Advertising
That Which Is “Not
Consumer Responses to Product Placement in Television Sitcoms
Breast Cancer as an Embodied Life Event
The Ideal Man and Woman
Body Satisfaction and Attitude Theory
Desafiando conceptualizaciones clásicas sobre el lujo
Corpos consumidos
Scales of care and responsibility
Social Support for Women Who Have Undergone Bariatric Surgery
Involuntary autonomy
Self-care and complementary and alternative medicine as care for the self
The Body as an Object-a Sociocultural Perspective
The Meanings of Lesbian and Gay Pride Day
Mothers and Daughters
Watching Over Baby
Constructing and Deconstructing the Body Malleable through Mother-Daughter Interactions
The Body as (Another) Place
Automated Text Analysis for Consumer Research
Networks of Desire
Purifying Practices
Taste Regimes and Market-Mediated Practice
Magical Thinking and Consumer Coping
Marketplace Tensions in Extraordinary Experiences
A Coal in the Heart
Semiotic Structure and the Legitimation of Consumption Practices
Talking to Ourselves
Participatory Action Research
Family Identity
Extended Self and Possessions in the Workplace
Beyond the Extended Self
Consumer Culture Theory (CCT)
Man-of-Action Heroes
The Fire of Desire
The Protean Quality of Subcultural Consumption
Chinese intimacies & consumer-culture-brand relations
Superdisabilities" vs "disabilities"? Theorizing the role of ableism in (mis)representational mythology of disability in the marketplace
Dynamics of positive deviance in destigmatisation
Fashionable subjects and complicity resistance
The agentic body in immigrant maternal identity reconstruction
Bio-politicizing consumption
Paradox, performance and food
"Revisiting the "passée
Consumer-brand assemblages in advertising
The obsession
Fear of falling
Confessing excess
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Culture and Consumption
The Elastic Body Image
Distinction
The Culture of Contentment
Michel Foucault
Feminist Literary Criticism and the Deconstruction of Ads
The Spoken and the Unspoken
Feminist Thought
Social Comparison and the Idealized Images of Advertising
The Consciousness of Addiction
Possessions and the Extended Self
Putting Consumer Experience Back into Consumer Research
The Sacred and the Profane in Consumer Behavior
Consumer Culture and Postmodernism
The Body in Consumer Culture
| Unique citing works | 119 |
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| Citations per year | 4,1 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2026 (30) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 113 |