The purpose of my bachelor thesis is to find out how young adults perceive the sexualization of the female body in advertising. In the first part of the thesis, in the theoretical section, with the help of secondary sources, I research the beginning of sexualization of women in the advertising and its consequences for the society. In the empirical part of the task I carry out a qualitative research with young adults aged between 18 and 30. In the interview I ask them 32 pre-prepared questions. They are related to 5 presented Slovenian ads and show their opinion about the sexualization of women in advertising in general. The main research questions are whether young adults problematize, criticize and condemn such advertising and whether there is a difference concerning reading and understanding ads with a sexualized female image depending on the sex. The results show that young adults mostly problematize such representation of women in ads, some more, the others less sharply. There is a difference in sex. The female group of the interviewees reacts more critically, angrily and is more strongly against sexualized representation of women in advertisements than the male group of the interviewees.
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