Social expression of body shaming among University’s students.

Abstract

In this study entitled “social expression of Body shaming among university’s students” an attempt has been made by the researcher to explore the social expression of body shaming among the students at National university of Modern languages. The researcher tried to examine various aspects of body shaming among students. This research has been conducted while using qualitative methodology and interpretive paradigm of social research. The whole phenomenon of body shaming was figured out holistically. Purposive, convenience and multistage sampling have been used in this study and sample size of this study was 22. Several, methods tools, and techniques were used for data acquisition. These include observation, in-depth interviews, jotting, and audio recording etc. The duration of this research was four months. This study carried three objectives. The researcher explored various types of body shaming in order to address first objective. She explored body shaming based on body size, skin complexion, height, facial features, and other physical features. The perception of students about each type of body shaming and offensive names which were used for degradation of those students who were facing body shamming were explored. Second objective of this study was to figure out causes of body shaming among students. Cultural factors of body shaming were explored during this research. The role of media, cosmetic industry, and other factors which were fuelling body shaming were figure out. Final objective of this research dealt with disturbance created in the lives of students by body shaming. The disturbance due to body shaming in Social life, the negative of impacts of body shaming in psychological health, the drawbacks of body shaming in physical health, and eating disorders were explored during this stud