Food and Society: Principles and ParadoxesThis 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. |
Contents
Principles and Paradoxes in the Study of Food | |
Fitting In and Standing | |
The Hard Work of Leisure | |
Good to Eat Hard to Stomach | |
Governing the Sovereign Consumer | |
The High Costs of Cheap Food | |
From Everywhere and Nowhere | |
Surplus and Scarcity | |
The Value of Values | |
References | |
Glossary Index | |
Other editions - View all
Food and Society: Principles and Paradoxes Amy E. Guptill,Denise A. Copelton,Betsy Lucal Limited preview - 2013 |
Food and Society: Principles and Paradoxes Amy E. Guptill,Denise A. Copelton,Betsy Lucal No preview available - 2012 |
Food and Society: Principles and Paradoxes Amy E. Guptill,Denise A. Copelton,Betsy Lucal No preview available - 2012 |
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