By the 1920s, slenderness became the key physical standard of beauty, thus filmmakers began casting slim actors and actresses in lead roles

Actresses in particular were bound by clauses in their studio contracts, which required them to maintain a particular weight and size. What was the cultural impetus for this change of attitude and appearance?


America's first fitness craze in the 1920s took hold, suddenly popularizing slenderness and visible musculature.

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Define the symbols, signs, and typification schemes of social construction of reality theory.

What will be an ideal response?

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1) The degree to which we feel social needs for affection and inclusion often manifests itself in our attempts to get other people to like and appreciate us. 2) A difference of opinion about facts, on what the facts imply, or on what we might wish to do about those facts. 3) The breaking down of attraction and the development of repulsion, the dissolution of perceived homophily (similarity) and the increased perception of incompatible, irreconcilable differences, the loss of perceptions of credibility and the development of disrespect. 4) An individual?s ability to openly discuss opposition arguments to their own arguments without feeling personally attacked or confronted. 5) Stage of relationship development where we try to discover how similar the other person is to us. 6) Stage of relationship development where the fusion of the two partners at both a psychological and a social level occurs. 7) Stage of relationship dissolution where partners move away from using the ?we??and??our??statements characteristics of integrating and use more??I,???me,??and ?mine??statements. 8) Short term relationship expectation where we expect to have fun early in our relationships. 9) People attempting to get another individual to like them try to be of help to this individual. 10) Attempting to get another individual to like him or her presents self as an outgoing, active, and enthusiastic person. A) Integrating B) Altruism C) Extravert D) Bonding E) Tolerance for Disagreement F) Differentiating G) Amusement H) Verbal Aggression I) Dynamism J) Concede Control K) Experimenting L) Affect M) Interpersonal Conflict N) Affinity-Seeking O) Disagreement P) Argument Q) Circumscribing R) Argumentativeness S) Happiness T) Initiating

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According to the text, random assignment to experimental conditions theoretically:

a. makes the experimental groups equivalent just prior to exposure to the experimental manipulation. b. guarantees the ability to generalize the results to the larger population. c. guarantees that the experiment will yield statistically significant results. © 2016 Cengage Learning®. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly accessible website, in whole or in part. d. makes the experimental groups different so they can be equalized by the manipulation of the independent variable. e. is impossible to carry out without an error.

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A question of ____ asks whether something is true or false

A) policy B) attitude C) fact D) value

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