- How has beauty standards changed from the 1980s to modern day? Some arguments that can be made for this topic would be what influenced there to be change in beauty standards? Does social media have an affect on what currently is portrayed as our beauty standards? Or is it just people?
2. Gallo writes about how human behavior is always under surveillance. Norms and surveillance go hand and hand with one another. Gallo argues that surveillance violates the privacy of humans and however surveillance was necessary for things like “stop and frisk.”
Lang, M. “Surveillance and conformity in competitive youth swimming”. Sport, Education and Society, vol. 15, no. 1, Sport, Education and Society, 2010, pp. 19–37.
3. After examining the quotes on my own I noticed how they clearly support the argument. Quotes were used for background and to support their claim on their current paragraph. They quoted the author fairly as some of the quotes were originally very long and necessary to include the whole thing.
Foucault, Michel. “Panopticism from Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison.” Race/ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts, vol. 2, no. 1, Indiana University Press, Oct. 2008, pp. 1–12.
I am doing a similar topic as I am researching how Barbie dolls effect Body image and beauty standards. It’s good that you chose the past 50 years so that your research will be more specified.