THE BEAUTY PRIVILEGE CONCEPT FORMS SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE

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The Beauty Privilege concept that occurs in the friendship environment is that there is an invitation to join the friendship circle in which there are some people who are considered to meet beauty standards. For individuals who do not meet the standards for getting body shaming, this explains that Beauty standard construction is a driving force for body shaming problems that are often experienced by individuals by commenting on a person's physical form unconsciously. Furthermore, in the friendship environment there is a tendency in giving help prioritizes someone who is considered beautiful, another case with someone who is considered not beautiful is sometimes exiled and removed. Individuals who are considered systematically dancing will be considered and treated better than individuals who are less attractive.

Through the perspective of symbolic theory of violent implementation of beauty privilege, namely differences in behavior based on appearance into symbolic forms of violence carried out through symbols and reality construction. Symbolic violence is an action that uses various means (media) to insult and harm the interests of others. Although Beauty Privilege is not the concept of physical implementation of violence, this violence has symbolic principles will give up and determine the way of thinking, see, feel, and act individuals.

As a result of symbolic violence, it does not directly affect the victim's body, but is very painful and lasts very long, even decades (Gusnita, 2017). Beauty privilege practices or istmewa treatment of someone who is considered symbolic, special treatment based on appearance becomes indirect violence that makes individuals who are considered not to prevent beauty standards have a feeling of alienated. In the concept of beauty privilege according to the perspective of symbolic violence is divided into 4 namely 1) Capital, Capital in symbolic violence is a dominant and empowered party in determining a particular value system, in educational practices occurs between teachers and students such as teachers provide special facilities to students who are considered beautiful , the economic world in the relationship between capital owners and laborers such as someone who is beautiful has a great opportunity, in the family between parents and children or between family members such as comparison of body shapes between family members due to beauty construction. Instead of dominant parties who do beauty privilege forms that are symbolic violence. 2) Habitus is a scheme of perceptions, thoughts, and actions taken by social groups where the form of beauty privilege there are beauty construction that internalized through family values and education, besides that the demands of beauty standards that are partially visible to the world of work that are subtly and vaguely forced to other parties And in the end it becomes something right. 3) Violence and power, namely a form of violence from power, when the dominance of power is formed violence, as well as beauty privilege differences in behavior based on the appearance carried out by those who dominate become symbolic forms of violence for individuals who are considered to have beauty standards that have a beauty privilege Like bullying and feelings are exiled.

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