DO ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE GET BETTER TREATMENT?

                               The concept of social stratification is merely based on the factors like class, gender, race, and other major forms of stratification, but the new researchers have found that there are other pervasive norms that can have a profound influence to determine societal categorization. For an instance, the attractiveness of an individual acquires a conceivable disposition within society. This parameter of physical attractiveness sharply discloses its impact on socioeconomic inequality where the good-looking figures are highly treated than the less attractive ones. It is said that attractive people have higher intelligence, better education, and higher earnings than others and also they attain better outcomes in their adulthood. In that sense, the role of physical attractiveness has become a contentious matter which can be unveiled as a consequential criterion in an individual’s life course.

                                       

                    At academic levels, better-looking youth of both genders reach better academic achievements in their transitioning to adulthood. In universities, there can be reflected a tendency of obtaining higher grades by attractive students. Physical attractiveness can lead to favorable treatment by the teachers and classmates when confronting diverse situations in learning, and it can support to constitute arenas of comfort and contexts of interpersonal relations. Consequently, the adolescents feel good and secure about themselves and the advancement of self-esteem or self-confidence strengthens them to meet any challenges in the domain of school. With that, they are able to succeed in academic tasks more effectively. Conversely, less attractive learners who lack such comfort or interpersonal relations are likely to be highly alienated and unable to complete the academic tasks successfully.

              This beauty-bias treatment or “lookism” can have influential roles in the labor market or industry. According to an academic review, “Physically attractive individuals are more likely to be interviewed for jobs and hired, they are more likely to advance rapidly in their careers through frequent promotions and they earn higher wages than unattractive individuals.” In some places, the higher degree of attractiveness is even encompassed in the recruitment policies in the job market. The Chinese Navy states that “the good- looking people” are an official requirement to join them in order to represent their nation with a better image.

                 Psychologists comprehend this physical attractiveness as a “beauty premium”, and there can be seen a number of reasons behind the success of the people who are said to be more attractive. Based on the social conventions, physically attractive people are considered dominant, more sociable, mentally healthy, sexually warm, skillful, and intelligent. Even the teachers expect cute kids in their classrooms and especially the college students obtain more knowledge and information from good-looking teachers. When it comes to the industry, the good-looking workers can be recognized as more confident and it influences in increasing their wages. Recent experiments have showcased that attractiveness raises social and communication skills which can increase the productivity of the worker or employer. Moreover, the social skills of a child can be emphasized as a remarkable predictor of lifetime earnings. On political platforms, better-looking candidates are more successful in elections since voters are willing to enjoy watching beautiful candidates. Researchers have found that attractive people get called back for job interviews more often and most of the time men are likely to engage in unfair negotiations with attractive women. Especially, these attractive ones are more sought after as romantic partners in relationships.

                         When investigating a person’s character, “good look” is one of the major factors that spontaneously come to one’s mind apart from the other inherent features. Have you ever thought that why do we automatically stop at the profile pictures of attractive girls or boys on social media? That is the simple stimulation that physical attractiveness can have towards other people. Generally, these attractive people are said to be very happy than others. Here, the issue is that the criterion of measuring one’s attractiveness since the way that people feel about attractiveness differs from one person to the other. Additionally, one can question whether all the attractive people are successful and whether there are unattractive successful ones in society. Those can be proffered as exceptions regarded to this factor. However, a person’s physical attractiveness can have an influential role in manipulating his or her entire life.