My Body, Their Sight:Body Constructions In Commercial Plastic Surgery Process

Commercial plastic surgery is a heated topic in modern society. Newspapers, magazines and academic articles have discussed a lot about it. Commercial plastic surgery which, with a limited amount of audience at the very beginning, used to be a mystery field to the general public, has become more and more popular today. It shows a widespread social phenomenon that many people are willing to use it to reconstruct their bodies. Based on the case study on a plastic surgery hospital in Shanghai with the qualitative research method of observation and in-depth interviews, this article portrays and reveals the process of body construction in commercial plastic surgeries, with the perspective of body constructivist sociology, this paper analyzes the process of people's body construction during the plastic surgery. This paper mainly discusses three aspects. Firstly, what drives people to get involved in the plastic surgery; Secondly, people's body showing in the plastic surgery field; Thirdly, what drives people to get rid of the plastic surgery and whether the new body can have a good integration into the daily life.This paper consists of five chapters. The first chapter is an introduction including the literature review, methodology and theoretical resources. The second chapter analyzes the reasons that lead people to participate in the plastic surgery process. In this chapter, social construction plays a decisive role in the establishment of people's awareness of a kind of standard beauty. The third chapter describes the status of the body in different plastic surgery stages in which self-construction is more important than social construction. The fourth chapter describes two situations in which body quits the plastic surgery process and analyzes the integration of the new body into daily life. The last chapter is a summary, discussion and reflection of the study.Despite that it is at the same time that self-construction and social construction work in the body construction process, the latter can only be functional when the former takes its role. People hope that the social body with successful body experiences can be cloned through the clone of biological body. Whether social bodies being successful after quitting the plastic surgery becomes the determinant factor in the subsequent participation in the plastic surgery.