I. JOURNAL REVIEW
Background
Theory and Goals of Research
This journal present about the attitude
of the students toward aesthetic criteria. One area of sociological interest
to researchers is related to the body. The body is one of the issues raised in
the history of human thought. In most societies, women are more attentive to
the beauty and appearance, and show more sensitivity and attention to his body.
This concern with them to adopt some of the excessive behavior to match their
physical properties. Through the mass media available today, women often make
changes in their body, wearing excessive makeup. Actually what is in their
minds about themselves is very influential on their physical and mental health.
In this study, researchers intend to
answer this question what beauty means that according to women's bodies, what
they are and what dimensions of social and mental effects it has, how we can
achieve beauty. This study is a research field that aims to achieve an
aesthetic criteria. In fact, in this study, researchers wanted to find insights
into society and analyze them after identifying their criteria.
The importance of this study is that
researchers can present a strategy to change the culture of beauty by
identifying and collecting aesthetic criteria. Foreign culture can have a big
effect for society today. The researchers hope to prevent the abuse of social
and methods that are advertised by capitalism and the media that causes many
people to experience financial losses in his life.
II.
Methodology
The
reseachers use of quanlitative method. And the data of this research has been
gathered on the basis of deep interviews with 30 female students of faculty of
social sciences in University of Shiraz who have been randomly selected in
different academic years and among different fields of. The interviewed girls
are in age groups of 18-26 years. Each interview has lasted for 45 to 60
minutes.
III.
Results and Discussion
The
results of the analysis show that some factors such as religious beliefs and education
are very effective on attitude of the girls toward beauty so that it helps the
girls understand the position. This research shows that as environment has
effect on attitude of the girls toward beauty. We have tried to present
classified finding of this research.
1.
Definition of beauty
Most
girls believe that beauty has been made of two apparent and intrinsic
dimensions which should not be ignored for definition.
2.
Aesthetic criteria and reasons for
selection
Having fit body is an
aesthetic criterion of a person in the girls’ view. They regard the reason for
selection of criterion is the effect which this criterion has on attraction and
social acceptance and only few regard this criterion reason as health reason.
3. Reason
for attention to beauty
Most
of the girls were asked why they pay attention to beauty and where they
acquired such insight and they answered that beauty increases self confidence
and social acceptance and internal satisfaction and 60% of the girls acquired
this insight from social environment which includes society and family in which
they live.
4. Effect
of clothes on beauty of the person and criterion for its selection
86.67% of the girls
believe that cloth is very important so that it can indicate personality of the
person. One of their most important criteria for selecting cloth is having fit
body and the next criteria are being orderly and tidy and having suitable color
and material. Few girls regard criterion for selecting cloth as veil and
its suitability with the related environment.
5. Effect
of environment and fashion on beauty
86.6%
of the interviewees believe that environment has considerable effect on beauty
because human being can be affected as he can affect many cases. Extent of this
effect is based on personalities of the persons and different environments.
According to the interviewees, fashion can have effect or not because most of
them believe that it is relative and should be measured on the basis of factors
such as makeup and veil and taste of the person.
6. Effect
of religious beliefs and education on attitude of the persons to beauty
More
than half of the respondents (56.67) believe that religious beliefs have
considerable effect on attitude of the persons toward beauty and 13.33% believe
that it is relative and depends on personalities.
7. Consequences
of lack of beauty, ways of access to beauty
With
regard to personal factors, lack of beauty can have different effects and
decrease and loss of self confidence are the most important consequence
according to girls and few of them can cause loss of marital and job
opportunities and inattention of other persons. In response to the second
question , 53.33% of the persons regard use of cosmetics and makeup as the most
important ways of achieving beauty while 36.67% regarded physical exercise and
26.67 regarded surgery as the most important factors and only few of them
believed that there was no way for being beautiful.
IV.
Conclusion
The present
study studied attitude of the students studying in University of Shiraz,
Faculty of Social Sciences toward beauty. Methodology of the research was
qualitative and information gathering tool was deep interview. In fact, many of
them believe that intrinsic beauty complements apparent beauty. Having fit body
attracts attention and social acceptance. Having beauty causes self confidence
for the person and the person achieves intrinsic satisfaction and social
acceptance.
As result, the
best way of access to beauty is use of cosmetics and makeup in order to prevent
these problems and use of other ways such as physical exercise or surgery as
the next stage. Besides these cases, the interviewees considered effect of
cloth on beauty of the person and believe that not only it doubles beauty, but
also it indicates personality and the best cloth is the one which is suitable
for the body, tidy and orderly.
V.
Critical Review
In
my opinion the whole of this journal is good, I do agree that religious beliefs
and education have a big impact on a person's beauty but religious beliefs have
a greater effect of education they have. In this journal, some of the
respondents emphasized the effect of mode of existing in the neighborhood.
Fashion
is also very influential on a person's beauty. Beauty is also related to
fashion or fashion that they wear, their attitude toward fashion themselves and
their beliefs about the culture of fashion that they wear. Beauty
can’t be defined because it is easy to understand but difficult to define.
From this
journal, beauty can be classified as three kinds such as : Tangible beauty, Intangible
beauty, and Reasonable beauty. I would rather choose the reasonable beauty
because this beauty is perceived with reasoning power of the person. We can
show the beauty as the good acts and many people regard that the reasonable
beauty is the important and real beauty.
Many women
especially young women always pay attention to their body by using make up and
cosmetics. makeup is related to dynamicity of character. In this sense, in
addition that it is an important means of hiding or manifesting different life
aspects, it is regarded as pretention means because it links common traditions
and principles to personal identity.
Long ago, cosmetics were
almost completely natural. Although there may be no supporting evidence to
prove that there were any synthetic cosmetics some may argue so.
Most cosmetics today are
synthetic and can cause lots of damage to our body. This is why many people
prefer natural cosmetics, which is the trend today.
So there are two ways to view the benefits and disadvantages of make-up. One being that if you are using make-up and its natural its good for you and if you are using synthetic make-up, its possible in the near future you will severly damage your body.
So there are two ways to view the benefits and disadvantages of make-up. One being that if you are using make-up and its natural its good for you and if you are using synthetic make-up, its possible in the near future you will severly damage your body.
The other view is the
pyschological factor. Make-up can help boost their confidence. It only becomes
a problem when someone must rely on make-up to believe their appearance is
beautiful. This can be even more aggrivated when certain cosmetics begin to
destroy your skin.
The important thing is you
have to choose the natural cosmetics or I suggest to do not use cosmetics if
you want to be a beautyful woman.
Beautiful
in my view is how we can cover our hearts to keep it beautiful in the eyes of
all people, especially men. we do not need to use excessive make-up because of
the beauty will shine by itself.
