Body management and its relationship with social acceptance of body (A case study of Shirazi women)

The present research paper aims at studying the relationship between body management and the social acceptance of body, evaluating the meaningful relationship between them on the basis of survey method. The samples, selected through multistage simple random cluster sampling, included 400 women, 18-40 years old, living in eight districts in Shiraz, Iran. Theoretically, the paper is based on ideas of Erving Goffman, Bourdiu, Giddens, and Exchange Theory. The results of the paper, obtained through descriptive and inferential statistics, shows that the average of body management is 62.8% which is indicative of a high rate of women’ attention to body in all respects. In addition, there is a direct and meaningful relationship between the variables of media consumption, social acceptance of body, socio-economic status and body management, with the relationship being reverse between the level religiosity and body management.