Context of Practice 1 - CoP Theme: Society

For the Context of Practice task 1 we were to choose a quote that we thought would be best to write about for a small 1'000 word essay. The themes of the quotes were society, politics, culture, history, technology or aesthetics.

Quote: society

Jansson-Boyd, C (2010) Consumer Psychology. New York: McGraw Hill Education
'Many studies have found that both women and men do not believe that their current body form is attractive...Research has repeatedly found that physically attractive individuals are perceived by most to be socially more desirable than those that are perceived as being unattractive, something that is likely to have been reinforced by consumer societies.'

Key words: Physically attractive individuals, socially more desirable, societies, brands, logos, subculture, music, gender representations/expectations, the media, advertisements, gender relations.

Using these key points I had a starting point for my research into what books would be most helpful to this task.