Sociocultural perspectives on human appearance and body image.

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NetTweens The Internet and Body Image Concerns in Preteenage Girls (2014, background): “Sociocultural models have provided the most widely accepted framework for understanding contemporary body dissatisfaction and disordered eating (e.g., Tiggemann, 2011).”
No harm in looking, right? Men’s pornography consumption, body image, and well-being. (2015, background): “Although the mediaprojected cultural appearance ideal is thin for women (i.e., ultrathin, athletic-thin, or curvaceously thin; Harrison, 2003; Tiggemann, 2011), it is characterized by lean muscularity or being mesomorphic for men (i.e., a “large but not too large” muscular build coupled with low…”
Social Media Effects on Young Women’s Body Image Concerns: Theoretical Perspectives and an Agenda for Research (2014, background): “2009), and the sociocultural perspective on body image (Thompson et al. 1999; Tiggemann 2011) assign central importance to media, emphasizing that exposure to media messages can impart unrealistic images of female beauty.”
Fat Talk and Body Image Disturbance (2017, background): “Email: jacqueline.mills@deakin.edu.au for most women to attain, evaluations of one’s appearance promote feelings of dissatisfaction, shame, and anxiety about one’s appearance (Moradi & Huang, 2008; Tiggemann, 2011).”