Social representations of body image among university students

Abstract

This article presents the partial inquiry of the study of social representations of the body image in the particularity-collectivity of university students at the Nezahualcoyotl Professional Academic Unity, using the in-depth interview technique, with the aim of understanding the multiplicity of perceptions, meanings, signifiers, knowledge, codes, awards, myths, ideologies, and emotions around the aforementioned. In socio-historical circumstances, where the cult of the aesthetic body, and the body grotesquely attractive image, the imprint is established as a pervasive hegemonic symbolic-abstract and concrete activity of man, postmodern “I-for-me” subject we place the axis of discussion at the chance to contribute to the staging of discourse, acts and processes that permit, socio-cultural complexity, knowledge of the interrelationships with its unique identity and group membership.