Food And Society
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| Author | : Amy E. Guptill |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 357 |
| Release | : 2013-04-03 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0745663907 |
This timely and engaging text offers students a social perspective on food, food practices, and the modern food system. It engages readers’ curiosity by highlighting several paradoxes: how food is both mundane and sacred, reveals both distinction and conformity, and, in the contemporary global era, comes from everywhere but nowhere in particular. With a social constructionist framework, the book provides an empirically rich, multi-faceted, and coherent introduction to this fascinating field. Each chapter begins with a vivid case study, proceeds through a rich discussion of research insights, and ends with discussion questions and suggested resources. Chapter topics include food’s role in socialization, identity, work, health and social change, as well as food marketing and the changing global food system. In synthesizing insights from diverse fields of social inquiry, the book addresses issues of culture, structure, and social inequality throughout. Written in a lively style, this book will be both accessible and revealing to beginning and intermediate students alike.
| Author | : Mark Gibson |
| Publisher | : Academic Press |
| Total Pages | : 564 |
| Release | : 2020-02-23 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 0128118091 |
Food and Society provides a broad spectrum of information to help readers understand how the food industry has evolved from the 20th century to present. It includes information anyone would need to prepare for the future of the food industry, including discussions on the drivers that have, and may, affect food supplies. From a historical perspective, readers will learn about past and present challenges in food trends, nutrition, genetically modified organisms, food security, organic foods, and more. The book offers different perspectives on solutions that have worked in the past, while also helping to anticipate future outcomes in the food supply. Professionals in the food industry, including food scientists, food engineers, nutritionists and agriculturalists will find the information comprehensive and interesting. In addition, the book could even be used as the basis for the development of course materials for educators who need to prepare students entering the food industry. - Includes hot topics in food science, such as GMOs, modern agricultural practices and food waste - Reviews the role of food in society, from consumption, to politics, economics and social trends - Encompasses food safety, security and public health - Discusses changing global trends in food preferences
| Author | : Peter Atkins |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 341 |
| Release | : 2016-04-29 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1317836006 |
Who can deny the significance of food? It has a central role in our health and pleasure as well as in our economy, politics and culture. Food in Society provides a social science perspective on food systems and demonstrates the rich variety of disciplinary and theoretical contexts of food studies. While hunger and malnutrition remain a reality in many countries, for some food has become an experience rather than a sustenance. This book addresses the different worldwide understandings of food through thematic chapters and a wide range of material including: description of the political economy of the food chain, from production to the point of sale; analysis of global issues of supply and demand; critical debate of environmental and health aspects of food, including GM food, the role of habits, taboos, age and gender in food consumption. Each chapter contains a guide to further reading and to websites of relevance to food. Extensively illustrated, this book is essential reading for students of food studies in the social sciences and humanities.
| Author | : Peter Garnsey |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 1999-04-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521645881 |
This is the first study of food in classical antiquity that treats it as both a biological and a cultural phenomenon. The variables of food quantity, quality and availability, and the impact of disease, are evaluated and a judgement reached which inclines to pessimism. Food is also a symbol, evoking other basic human needs and desires, especially sex, and performing social and cultural roles which can be either integrative or divisive. The book explores food taboos in Greek, Roman, and Jewish society, and food-allocation within the family, as well as more familiar cultural and economic polarities which are highlighted by food and eating. The author draws on a wide range of evidence new and old, from written sources to human skeletal remains, and uses both comparative historical evidence from early modern and contemporary developing societies and the anthropological literature, to create a case-study of food in antiquity.
| Author | : Alejandro Colas |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2018-10-16 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0520965523 |
Food and drink has been a focal point of modern social theory since the inception of agrarian capitalism and the industrial revolution. From Adam Smith to Mary Douglas, major thinkers have used key concepts such as identity, exchange, culture, and class to explain the modern food system. Food, Politics, and Society offers a historical and sociological survey of how these various ideas and the practices that accompany them have shaped our understanding and organization of the production, processing, preparation, serving, and consumption of food and drink in modern societies. Divided into twelve chapters and drawing on a wide range of historical and empirical illustrations, this book provides a concise, informed, and accessible survey of the interaction between social theory and food and drink. It is perfect for courses in a wide range of disciplines.
| Author | : William C. Whit |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 1995-01-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0742580245 |
The importance of food is undeniable. Yet, because it is so close and obvious, we often fail to pay attention to it. In Food and Society: A Sociological Approach, author William C. Whitt attempts to develop a multi-level, multidisciplinary approach to the relationship between food and the larger world. Organized from the experiences of food consumption through its preparation, distribution, storage and production, this book discusses the role of food in past societies, the basics of nutrition, contemporary issues, including body size, food and culture, food production, world hunger and food innovation.
| Author | : David Pimentel Ph.D. |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 402 |
| Release | : 2007-10-04 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1420046683 |
Since the publication of the first edition of Food, Energy, and Society, the world's natural resources have become even more diminished due to the rapid expansion of the global human population. We are faced with dwindling food supplies in certain geographic areas, increasing pressure on energy resources, and the imminent extinction of many
| Author | : Lynn J. Frewer |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 467 |
| Release | : 2013-03-09 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 3662046016 |
A unique insight into the decision-making and food consumption of the European consumer. The volume is essential reading for those involved in product development, market research and consumer science in food and agro industries and academic research. It brings together experts from different disciplines in order to address the fundamental issues related to predicting food choice, consumer behavior and societal trust in quality and safety regulatory systems. The importance of the social and psychological context and the cross-cultural differences and how they influence food choice are also covered in great detail.
| Author | : Paolo Corvo |
| Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 169 |
| Release | : 2019-01-14 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9781349561001 |
This book analyses how consumer food choices have undergone profound changes in the context of the economic crisis, including the rediscovery of local products and the diffusion of multi-ethnic food. Corvo argues that a new ecological relationship between food and the environment is needed to reduce food problems such as food waste and obesity.
| Author | : William C. Whit |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9781882289363 |
The importance of food is undeniable. Yet, because it is so close and obvious, we often fail to pay attention to it. In Food and Society: A Sociological Approach, author William C. Whitt attempts to develop a multi-level, multidisciplinary approach to the relationship between food and the larger world. Organized from the experiences of food consumption through its preparation, distribution, storage and production, this book discusses the role of food in past societies, the basics of nutrition, contemporary issues, including body size, food and culture, food production, world hunger and food innovation.
