Yep, It's another pip question (1 Viewer)

[Danni07]

My PIP is based around eating disorders, however knowing that this topic is way overdone, I've tried to take a new angle and my question is "What are the major factors contributing to the development of an Eating Disorders?"
Firstly, what do you think of this topic? Is it too narrowly focussed? Are there any suggestions you could make?
Secondly, I have still to decide on my cross-cultural comparision. It will either be across time (past few decades until now) or across social status (rich vs poor) or across gender. What do you think?
Thanks for your time

 

[dani 4 pasquale]

hey

im doing mine on something similar...societal presures and expectations of the female body image..and im also concerntrating on doing eating disorders..
your topic sounds good
the angles im focusing on are "the perfect body image" that society puts out there to see.. the medias influence on us..enough to make a person turn to an eating disorder..
its been suggested to me that i should take aa look at studying something different like the age females feel pressure (teenagers- young girls acting like teenagers, wearing makeup, caring about appearance more} i think i might do that.. maybe you could focus on the factors that make a person go to the extent where they would cause themselves harm by staring themselves or bingeing?
im still undecided...but i hope ive helped

 

[Survivor39]

My PIP is based around eating disorders, however knowing that this topic is way overdone, I've tried to take a new angle and my question is "What are the major factors contributing to the development of an Eating Disorders?"
Firstly, what do you think of this topic? Is it too narrowly focussed? Are there any suggestions you could make?
Secondly, I have still to decide on my cross-cultural comparision. It will either be across time (past few decades until now) or across social status (rich vs poor) or across gender. What do you think?
Thanks for your time

Hi Danni07,
You are right in that this topic has been way overdone. However, like you said, if you look at this topic on a new light, you can make it interesting.
I don't recommand you to look at your topic "What are the major factors contributing to the development of an Eating Disorders?" because:

1. Most people who did Eating disorder would have included this part in their analysis already.
2. You cannot write a whole PIP base on this number of factors which catalyses Eating disorders, it would be not in-depth enough.

To help you out a bit, maybe you can focus on the future of eating disoder (since the syllabus emphasise on the future implication of such and such), and use continuity and change in the context of eating disorder in the future. What will happening in the next 10, 20 or 50 year for cases relating to eating disorder? Use theory formulated by sociologists, formulate your own theory about the modernisation of eating disoders. Then go from there. Discuss the implications due to technological advances - such as the media - and cultural empiricism and their impact on the future of eating disorder cases. Be more creative!

This would probably spark more interest than topics that have looked at past case studies of eating disorders etc.

I hope this helps.

Gookd luck

Survivor39
Moderator

 

[Danni07]

Hmm, that does sound like a pretty good idea I'll have to put some ideas together and see what I can come up with. Thanks

 

[Sickle]

Don't want to burst anyones bubble, but they're still been over done. Anything to do with eating disorders has mosty likely been PIPed in every aspect.