Analyzing Mass Media

ingredients. Dr Perez.

My name is Joshua Shamley, and today I will be

presenting to you my portrayal of an analyzation of men's

health magazine.

So what is Men's Health Magazine?

Well, if you haven't seen it on your local local

grocery store shelves or in basically any retail marketplace, Men's

Health magazine is one of the most popular men's magazine

brands. And as a quote from the executive writer himself,

it is a brand for active, successful professional men who

want greater control over their physical, mental and emotional lives.

And what a lot of the concepts and articles that

are written are to try and portray what men should

look like and how they should act and feel like.

Now, one of the most I catching portions of Men's

Health magazine is going to be the cover itself.

And if you look up any of the men's health

magazines on Google images, well, you'll first notice is kind

of like in the photos that I've provided, that they

are very, um, muscular and very strong looking men.

They usually have their shirts off, and what the magazine

is trying to do is not only catch everyone's eye

when they first look at it, but is also trying

to show what their perception of what a healthy male

looks like, whether very physically fit, muscular and of the

quote it body of what they are trying to portray.

Some of the sociological concepts that I had noticed when

looking at the magazine and also their website was first

off their material culture.

One of the one of these concepts that I noticed

was because of not only do they talk about fitness

and health like you would expect, but they also go

into various other categories, considering your overall life, technology and

certain gear that men should have and also category talking

about style and also another talking about grooming.

And over all these combined into all these various products

and services that they recommend that all men should buy

and when clicking and specifically the style category on their

website, you'll see and notice that there's multiple different listings

and two either the top 10 or a series of

what's the best shoe or the best T shirt to

buy the best watch to buy for men, and what

this is doing is very well poor, trained the material

culture that you need to have a certain product or

a certain, UM, style of close to where that will

make you look and fit in with the culture around.

You sure that I noticed or the second concept that

I noticed was the ideal culture, And this kind of

goes back to the idea of what their overall goal

is is to portray what the ideal man should look

like. And it's present in this magazine because they have

all these articles talking about what a man should look

like and how they should feel and what it is

that there version and society's version of a man should

really be like.

And when going into these articles, you start to really

talking about like how a healthy lifestyle should be versus

an unhealthy lifestyle and what practices should be taken in

order to live these lifestyles that they say are best

for men the next to you that I that I

noticed within the magazine was the first of which was

stereotyping, and one aspect within the magazine is that they

are trying to stereotype what men should look like, and

even though within the magazines you know, all guys would

probably want to have a giant six pack and giant

and giant biceps and be able to lift £350.

But realistically, not every man is capable of that.

And everybody's body is different.

So being what they say is quote healthy may not

be possible for some men, while for other other men

it is very obtainable for them.

And the fourth concept that I found was reference group,

and especially when discussing anything within the media.

A reference group is usually what you're talking about.

Where they are portraying what a quote reference should be

for everyone else is standard and how they should try

and live their lives to look like.

So the reference group of men's health is that everyone

needs to be very fit, living a healthy lifestyle, eating

the right things, live living and wearing certain clothes and

living to certain standards of what they think is ideal

for a man.

And the less.

And I think the greatest factor in concept that I

found within the magazine is that of social influence are

also known as peer pressure.

And with all of these magazine covers, you notice that

all these men's are very fit.

And one, there's kind of two options that can kind

of come out of reading this magazine, the first of

which would be the person that sees that and thinks,

you know, those goals are way too impossible for me

to try to obtain, and it really kind of discourages

them and kind of sets them in a point where

they don't think that they are like everyone else and

that they're kind of a outlier.

Whereas in reality scene, people that look like what they

have on the cover of the magazines are really kind

of the allies themselves, because not every single guy looks

like that and can obtain a body that looks like

that. And so the second option of the results that

may come out of this peer pressure is that it

may motivate a guy to go out and want to

work out if he's been living an unhealthy lifestyle and

not working out and not eating correctly.

And sometimes reading this magazine can give you medical facts

that may be able to help you to change their

lifestyles in a way that can positively change your lifestyle

and make you a healthier person.

Thank you.

Very. Thank you very much for reading over my presentation.

And here are my resources.

Thank you very much.

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