Index

Appearance as Capital

ISBN: 978-1-80043-711-1, eISBN: 978-1-80043-708-1

Publication date: 29 November 2021

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(2021), "Index", Sarpila, O., Kukkonen, I., Pajunen, T. and Åberg, E. (Ed.) Appearance as Capital, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 177-179. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80043-708-120210016

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INDEX

Able-bodiedness
, 4–5, 73–75

Accumulation of aesthetic capital
, 32–33, 39, 57–58

Activism in social media
, 152–153

Admiration
, 5–6

Aesthetic capital
, 8, 10, 24, 28, 103, 106, 117–118, 135, 138

externalised forming of
, 78–80

grammar of exchanging
, 30–33

mechanisms
, 106

sociological conception
, 103

theory of
, 149–150

Aesthetic labour
, 28–29

Ageing
, 71

age-based collective consciousness
, 72

body
, 71–72

gender and appearance-related consumption
, 72–73

Anti-ageing products
, 75

Appearance. See also Physical appearance

appearance-related consumption
, 72–73

different formulations of appearance-related capital
, 26–29

dissatisfaction
, 169

as medium for inclusion and exclusion
, 109–111

norms
, 136–137

relation to psychological well-being
, 111–112

as symbol of making an impression
, 107–109

Appearance satisfaction
, 119–121

on different social media platforms
, 121–122

social media platforms and gender
, 122–123

Appearance work
, 39

belief in appearance as currency
, 40–41

significance of gendered appearance work
, 41–43

Attention economy
, 122, 154–155

Authentic self-presentation
, 95

Authenticity
, 73, 79, 81, 95

Beauty
, 4, 24, 27–28, 30, 39–41, 71, 108, 166

care brands
, 1

fake mask
, 159

ideals
, 120, 150

ideology
, 41

logics
, 6

myth
, 41

perks and penalties
, 8

physical attractiveness
, 4–5

skin care and hair
, 75–76

standards
, 5

Western beauty ideal
, 135

work
, 45–46

Belief in appearance as currency
, 40–41

Benevolent sexism
, 41

Bodily capital
, 24, 26–27

Body hair as classed aesthetics
, 160–161

Body management
, 72–73

Bourdieu, Pierre
, 4, 7, 24–26, 28, 31, 39, 103–105, 152

Bourdieusian capital metaphor
, 23

Bourdieusian tradition
, 4–5

forms of capital and body
, 24–26

theory
, 105

Capital. See also Aesthetic capital
, 24, 30

Bourdieu’s forms of
, 24–26

economist approach to
, 27–28

metaphor
, 24

Capitalisation of physical appearance
, 3–6

Clothing
, 78–80

Colleagues monitoring
, 96–97

Commodity culture in social media
, 152–153

Content creation
, 119–121

on different social media platforms
, 121–122

social media platforms and gender
, 122–123

Conversions of aesthetic capital
, 32–33

Cosmetic procedures
, 13

non-surgical cosmetic interventions
, 73

Cultural capital
, 25–26, 32, 81, 99, 149–150, 159, 167

Decontextualisation
, 155

Deep acting
, 95

Dialogic thematic analysis
, 138

Diet
, 76–78

Disgust
, 5–6

Distancing strategy
, 74

Doing fatness wrong
, 141–142

Dreaded otherness
, 161

Economic capital
, 8, 25, 167

Economist approach to capital
, 27–28

Emotional labour
, 28–29

Employer
, 92–94

Exclusion, appearance as medium for
, 109–111

Facebook
, 119, 121–122, 125, 135–136, 140

Fat

activism
, 135, 137–138, 140

activists
, 140, 145

good fatty
, 136–137

stigma
, 136–137

weight discrimination
, 136–137

Fatphobia
, 136–137

Femininity
, 40–41

Finland
, 1, 6, 10, 43–44, 51, 61, 168, 170

class structure
, 11

ethnic diversity
, 12

Finnish context
, 7–8, 10, 13, 170

Finnish culture
, 45–46

streetscape
, 13

Finnish culture
, 45–46

Flaunting
, 139

Gender
, 7, 24, 27–29, 46, 72–73, 122–123, 166

‘non-market’ activity
, 42

differences in
, 10

gender-comparative perspective
, 63

gendered capital and labour
, 28–29

gendered form of capital
, 6–8

inequality
, 41

studies
, 4

Generational habitus
, 72

Geographical peculiarities
, 11–13

Goffman, Erving
, 2, 88

dramaturgy
, 90–91

framework of impression management
, 98–99

Goffmanian lens
, 8–9

Goffmanian theatre metaphor
, 87–88

Goffman-inspired methodology
, 91

Grooming
, 4, 29, 41–43, 50, 58, 166

skin care and hair
, 75–76

Habitus
, 105

Hagen, Sofie
, 9, 135–142, 169

Hairless beauty ideal
, 149

(un) hairy female body
, 150–152

activism and commodity culture in social media
, 152–153

Hairlessness
, 149, 158, 160

(un) hairy female body
, 150–152

activism and commodity culture in social media
, 152–153

hairless beauty ideal
, 149

norm
, 149, 158, 160

Hakim, Catherine
, 3–4, 23, 28, 33, 68, 165–166

idea of erotic capital
, 28

theory
, 28

Impression management with work costumes
, 88–90

Inclusion, appearance as medium for
, 109–111

Instagram
, 121–122, 127

#Januhairy
, 149–150, 152–154

Kuipers, Giselinde
, 3–5, 23, 26–28, 32, 43–44, 103–105, 151–152, 160, 165–166

Luxury-act
, 11

Masculinity
, 41, 57

female
, 160

hypothesis
, 58

idealisation of performative masculinity
, 76–78

traditional man
, 59–60

traditional masculinity
, 59–60

Mears, Ashley
, 4, 6–8, 23, 27–30, 33, 43, 50–51, 104, 165–166, 168–169

Metrosexual
, 57, 59, 61

Metrosexual Masculinities
, 57–58

metrosexuality
, 57–59, 68

Non-surgical cosmetic interventions
, 73

Norms
, 5, 87, 156

normative aesthetic regulation
, 168–169

normative body
, 135

norm-breaking fat body
, 135

social norms
, 24

Objectification theory
, 119, 122–123

Offensive resistance
, 138, 140–141

Performative masculinity, idealisation of
, 76–78

Physical appearance
, 1, 103–104, 165

as aesthetic capital
, 166

capitalisation
, 3–6

in Finnish Context
, 10–13

importance
, 1–3

physical appearance -related traits
, 167

Physical capital
, 26–27

Physical exercise
, 76–78

Psychological well-being, appearance relation to
, 111–112

Self-projection
, 95

Selfies
, 2, 119–121, 128–129, 152, 154, 156

Sexual capital
, 26–27

Shame
, 5–6, 122–123, 129, 150, 159

Social capital
, 25, 32–33, 113, 149–150

Social comparison theory
, 119, 122–123

Social media. See also Facebook; Instagram
, 2–3, 117–118

activism and commodity culture in
, 152–153

appearance satisfaction and content creation on
, 121–122

effects of
, 119

gender
, 122–123

platforms
, 122–123, 169–170

social network site
, 125

Social movements
, 152

Working life
, 8–9, 33, 87, 169–170

aesthetic norms in
, 93–94

effects of
, 4

everyday
, 87, 98–99, 110

experiences
, 6–7