{"id":66542,"date":"2015-04-25T09:15:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T14:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=66542"},"modified":"2015-04-11T02:34:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T07:34:45","slug":"frequencies-in-whisker-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/04\/25\/frequencies-in-whisker-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"Frequencies in Whisker Forms"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Vox<\/a>, Phil Edwards dug up and revived an article<\/a> from the American Journal of Sociology<\/em> published in 1976. It tracks facial hair trends — or what the author whimsically calls “frequencies in whisker forms” — from\u00a01842 to 1972. He notes, in particular, the overwhelming dominance of the clean face\u00a0at the time of publication.<\/p>\n

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The original author uses the data to make an argument about the existence of fashion trends. He’s interested, too, in why fashions change and, in like any good sociologist, recommends further research. He does speculate, though, about\u00a0one possible driver of change: old people. He writes:<\/p>\n

…as long as any considerable number of people who have stuck to a superseded form of personal appearance are still living, the young may tend to avoid such a mode as old hat. These distasteful associations seem to be safely overcome only after the passage of a century or more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His theory holds. If his data is correct, beards disappeared right around 1915. It’s been a hundred years and beards<\/a> are back<\/a>!<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At Vox, Phil Edwards dug up and revived an article from the American Journal of Sociology published in 1976. It tracks facial hair trends — or what the author whimsically calls “frequencies in whisker forms” — from\u00a01842 to 1972. He notes, in particular, the overwhelming dominance of the clean face\u00a0at the time of publication. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":66544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,251,225,55,2087,253],"class_list":["post-66542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-hair","tag-clothesfashion","tag-gender","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/6.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66546,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66542\/revisions\/66546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}