Influence Of Culture On Society

Culture is defined as the collective beliefs, customs, arts, and attitudes that a group of people share. Throughout the world, it has been shown beyond doubt that culture has a lasting impact on the way in which people live their lives. Culture shapes our beliefs, interests, hobbies, and outlooks on the world. Culture has a strong influence on relationships, media, society, and therefore, people’s personal identity and personhood. All through history women have been influenced by the culture and have been subject to its social laws and ideals. Rights and opportunities have immensely grown for woman within the United States, yet along with those right’s have come new standards and expectations for women that have shaped the way they perceive

Along with new roles for women within a growing society, unrealistic standards and expectations have also followed. It took years and years of fighting and feminist movements for women to receive the same rights as men within a male dominated society. Although women are continuing to stand up for equal rights, women now have big roles within society and the idea that men are “better” than women is long gone. Women are now seen in every profession and businesses, holding high positions and leadership roles. However, due to growing roles of women, they have also had to endure a growning industry that has set unrealistic standards for them. Magazines, tv shows, social media outlets, adds, and commercials have all begun to objectify and sexualize women. The culture has set standards for women by putting the skinniest, flawless, tallest, and overall most sexually appealing women out for the world to see. Social media has become

This has caused eating disorders, depression, self- harm, bullying many other negative effects for young women growing up in the culture today. These are notions that will stay with a young woman through adolescence and throughout adulthood. Things from anti-wrinkle creams, make-up and contouring, to things such as plastic surgery, botox and breast enhancements. The sole purpose of these tools is to “fix” a women and make her more culturally desirable, and the fact that women buy in to these notions are what makes the businesses thrive and worst of all become acceptable to society. Similarity, Edmonds argues that plastic surgery has become normal in Brazil because of cultural acceptances and “plastic surgery is not just a means of self-management, but a way to manage sexual relationships as family structures change”. Women are worried that they will lose their jobs or their husbands due to the effects of old age on their body, and therefore, feel obligated to make changes to their bodies in order to maintain social and economic