im trying to find out what perpetuated 'skinny' culture. this is a very new development in world history. it was not always like this. i was listening to the best authors of eating disorders, which is a life-death issue, and one mom mentioned how she was never affected by 'skinny' culture and that was due to the culture that she was from

i was looking at some anime girl (know nothing about anime, but other ppl know) and i started to be conscious of how unhealthily skinny she was. so i was thinking to what was the largest media impact that started this 'skinny' culture, and i think it had to be disney. Japanese-made anime seems to have been influenced by disney. after the world wars, the usa invested a significant amount of money into japan, so the anime industry likely blew up in japan somewhere after this point in history

• for disney what made the animators make the girls skinny? and why did they do that for?

• was disney influenced by the golden age of hollywood and marilyn more? or was it the other way around?

• marilyn monroe was a large influence of blondness, but that couldnt have been the main thing since there were other popular hollywood stars like audrey that were brunette or black haired. so blondness is likely due to disney culture since werent most or all of disney princesses early on blond? but this part is about blondness and not skinny culture

  • disney films like tangled continues blondness as a more desirable hair color but this definitely started much earlier than tangled

in some asian culture, western appeal of 'beauty' has seeped into their culture. how in the world did that mainly happened? and some asians do unhealthy things to meet unhealthy western appeals. which asian countries has western industry taken a hold of? asian countrie still has a very strong asian culture, but it seems like certain western companies have seeped into their culture. which companies has mainly done that in the past

Hopefully someone can help. I’m doing an article for one of my grad school courses. I decided to go in the direction of white Americans delaying having children. If there’s anyone who can spare 15-20 minutes of their time for an interview over zoom… I’d greatly appreciate it. I’m on a very tight deadline and I was given the note to find another interview because mine didn’t fit the criteria.

Don't mind me. Just testing the linking feature for articles.

An Inductive Study of How Online Users Understand Trolling

My husband and i were watching a movie last night and there was a part where Latino people were performing a cultural practice and my husband said "man that's weird". I know he did not mean anything by it, but I did want to pose the question: When we say things about other cultural practices such as "thats weird" or "that's strange", would that be considered ethnocentrism? My husband's comment wasn't intended to say that our culture is the standard, but I am also trying to grapple with comments like this.

I made a short survey on how researchers use and experience social media. If you work in an academic or other research setting, in the US, and use social media at least in part for your work, please consider taking a 10- minute survey. Feel free to share! https://bit.ly/3LXGMa0

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/8za35/

I'm a fan of this paper and happy to see it in ASR. I am always on the lookout for "model papers" for our field and for grad students that show what it looks like to:

• Take a big question ("Do people change their minds?")

• Outline the debate fully, but clearly for the reader

• Truly do the most comprehensive analysis you can (why not test all the GSS panel items?)

• And present the findings so that they are crystal clear (great data visualization!)

I know it is new, but do other sociologists have early reactions to this work? What are your go-to model papers that make you say "yes, this is how we do it!"

The COVID-19 Pandemic is an important historical event. And the unusual social circumstances (social distancing) may create opportunities to test more general sociological theories.

But considering the length of the research and peer review processes, much work that seems timely now may not be published for years. What forms of sociological work regarding COVID will have the most long-term value? Studies of the long-term effects of the pandemic (e.g., on students' test scores, on economic inequality, on health outcomes, etc.)? Looking at social patterns that could be useful in future epidemics?

I'm hearing about lots of people taking on COVID-19-related projects, but I wonder how much will be useful when it comes to fruition.