The Barbie Doll Theory What is a Barbie doll? Why is she called Barbie? This Barbie Doll, aka Barbara got her start in society and flocked into the hearts of every little girl when she was first commercially released several years ago. It’s no wonder that many little girls saw Barbie as a person that they wanted to be. Barbara the Barbie doll was smart, beautiful, loved by everyone and could fulfill and succeed in any and every thing that she was made for. In the eyes of a little girl she was the sole image of perfection. Barbara the Barbie Doll, being a sole image of beauty and perfection has symbolized three things about all of us in our relation to society, that society influences how we see ourselves, secondly, we try to meet the needs
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After that comment, right after she gave up playing coy she could have ended up identifying herself as being a part of the out group as evident how the poem states at the end, “She went to and fro apologizing…Her good nature wore out…To every woman a happy ending”. The fact that she could have started to identify herself as being a part of the out group shows that the classmates comment threatened her social identity ultimately, leading her to behavioral change. According to Belle Derks, Jeffrey Stedehouder, and Tiffany A. Ito authors of Social Identity Modifies Face Perception: An ERP Study of Social Categorization states, “establishing clear in-group/out-group distinctions becomes more important to people when their social identity is threatened, for instance, when their group has low status or when it lacks distinctiveness from other groups (Branscombe et al., 1999; Jetten et al., 1999) (NCBI). Secondly, according to the second study that the authors of Social Identity Modifies Face Perception: An ERP Study of Social Categorization had found was that the second study emphasized the complex effects of social identity threat on the perception, intergroup evaluations and coping strategies of members of marginalized groups. On the other hand, social identity threat seemed to trigger implicit coping strategies, leading Muslims to show implicit negative out-group evaluations (NCBI). …show more content…
In social categorization, we categorize objects in order to understand them and identify them. The second stage is social identification where we adopt the identity of the group we have categorized ourselves as belonging to. The final stage is social comparisons which are once we have identified ourselves as part of a group; we then tend to compare that group with other groups. This is the example of how we socially identify each other, which in the end can lead to total behavioral change. In similarity to society, the girl changed her behavior as a way of strategically coping to her social identity being threatened. Changes in her behavior such as exercising, dieting, smiling and wheedling, altogether playing coy led to her good nature wearing out resulting in the girl to cut off her nose and her legs. At the end of the narrative poem, the girl’s behavioral change led to her death or as can be seen in the poem, “with the undertaker 's cosmetics painted on....Consummation at last. To every woman a happy ending”, her perfection in society (Barbie Doll
After that comment, right after she gave up playing coy she could have ended up identifying herself as being a part of the out group as evident how the poem states at the end, “She went to and fro apologizing…Her good nature wore out…To every woman a happy ending”. The fact that she could have started to identify herself as being a part of the out group shows that the classmates comment threatened her social identity ultimately, leading her to behavioral change. According to Belle Derks, Jeffrey Stedehouder, and Tiffany A. Ito authors of Social Identity Modifies Face Perception: An ERP Study of Social Categorization states, “establishing clear in-group/out-group distinctions becomes more important to people when their social identity is threatened, for instance, when their group has low status or when it lacks distinctiveness from other groups (Branscombe et al., 1999; Jetten et al., 1999) (NCBI). Secondly, according to the second study that the authors of Social Identity Modifies Face Perception: An ERP Study of Social Categorization had found was that the second study emphasized the complex effects of social identity threat on the perception, intergroup evaluations and coping strategies of members of marginalized groups. On the other hand, social identity threat seemed to trigger implicit coping strategies, leading Muslims to show implicit negative out-group evaluations (NCBI). …show more content…
In social categorization, we categorize objects in order to understand them and identify them. The second stage is social identification where we adopt the identity of the group we have categorized ourselves as belonging to. The final stage is social comparisons which are once we have identified ourselves as part of a group; we then tend to compare that group with other groups. This is the example of how we socially identify each other, which in the end can lead to total behavioral change. In similarity to society, the girl changed her behavior as a way of strategically coping to her social identity being threatened. Changes in her behavior such as exercising, dieting, smiling and wheedling, altogether playing coy led to her good nature wearing out resulting in the girl to cut off her nose and her legs. At the end of the narrative poem, the girl’s behavioral change led to her death or as can be seen in the poem, “with the undertaker 's cosmetics painted on....Consummation at last. To every woman a happy ending”, her perfection in society (Barbie Doll