TY - JOUR ID - 300 TI - Meta-Analysis of the Relationship between Cultural Capitals and Body Management JO - Journal of Iranian Cultural Research JA - JICR LA - en SN - 2008-1847 AU - Shoaa, Sedigheh AU - Niazi, Mohsen AD - PhD Candidate of Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, University of Kashan AD - Professor, Department of Social Sciences, University of Kashan Y1 - 2016 PY - 2016 VL - 9 IS - 1 SP - 61 EP - 81 KW - Body Management KW - Cultural capital KW - Meta-Analysis KW - Sociology of the Body DO - 10.22035/ijcr.2016.300 N2 - In today's society, body management in the sense of continual manipulation in the visual aesthetics has been expanded dramatically. Body is a very important issue theoretically and practically and many studies have addressed it. Moreover, there are much debates on body as a social and identity-making element in sociology. Body management is common among the youth, and different behaviors such as body building, food diets and make up have been represented for it. In this study that aimed to the meta-analysis of the relationship between body management and cultural capitals, 10 studies from 38 research in the body management which has the necessary qualifications, were selected from databases and by using comprehensive meta-analysis (CMA), data were analyzed. In this study, according to results of the heterogeneity, random effects model was appropriate and the measure of the combined effect relationship was 32 percent that is a medium effect size based on the Cohen's criteria. In other words, the cultural capital plays a medium role in the variance explanation of body management. UR - http://www.jicr.ir/article_300.html L1 - http://www.jicr.ir/article_300_d6aaa58511781a0309844de4aafeff2e.pdf ER -