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Flower Boys and Muscled Men : = Comparing American and South Korean Cultural Models of the Ideal Male Body Using Cultural Domain Analysis.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Flower Boys and Muscled Men :/
Reminder of title:	Comparing American and South Korean Cultural Models of the Ideal Male Body Using Cultural Domain Analysis.
Author:	Monocello, Lawrence Thomas.
Description:	1 online resource (244 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-04.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International57-04(E).
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355670721

Flower Boys and Muscled Men : = Comparing American and South Korean Cultural Models of the Ideal Male Body Using Cultural Domain Analysis.
Monocello, Lawrence Thomas.

Flower Boys and Muscled Men :Comparing American and South Korean Cultural Models of the Ideal Male Body Using Cultural Domain Analysis. - 1 online resource (244 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-04.

Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Alabama, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

This study uses cultural domain analysis to understand the similarities and differences in ideal male body image between Americans and South Koreans. The prevalence of body image and eating disorders is rising all over the world, in women and in men. Due in large part to universalist assumptions about masculinity, the ways in which men's body image is understood across cultures are understudied. Further, cross-cultural research on body image often fails to account for the effect of cultural differences through anything more than a nominal variable. Therefore, this study demonstrates an emically valid and scientifically reliable mixed methods approach to the study of body image that can be used in multidisciplinary research to more effectively operationalize "culture." Results show that Americans understand body ideals largely through the dimension of individual control, while South Koreans understand body ideals through the dimensions of importance and desirability. Americans also more strongly endorse the instrumental aspects of male bodies, while South Koreans focus on their ornamental qualities, reflecting differing cultural scripts for achieving and projecting masculine status. Specifically, while Americans endorse highly muscular male bodies as ideal, South Koreans endorse more slender, "prettier" male images, of which one prominent example is the kkonminam, or "beautiful flower boy."

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355670721Subjects--Topical Terms:

1179959
Cultural anthropology.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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