SOC 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Relation, Food Studies, Tim Hortons
21 Feb 2018
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Food refers to any substance humans, animals and plants intake to sustain their life. For humans food is not just sustenance but carries a diverse list of social and cultural meanings in our lives. Food is an essential for biological organisms to survive. Food is more than a source of energy and nutrients essential for human health and well-being and there are many substances humans eat that may not be needed for their health or in fact harm them. Don"t need chips to survive but companies is society make money off of the chips purchased. (cid:862)suste(cid:374)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e a sy(cid:373)(cid:271)ol, a product, a ritual object, an identity badge, a(cid:374) o(cid:271)je(cid:272)t of guilt, a politi(cid:272)al tool, eve(cid:374) a ki(cid:374)d of (cid:373)o(cid:374)ey. (cid:863) What we eat, how we eat, when and with whom we eat reflect the complexity of wide cultural arrangements around food. What is edible changes from society and has also changed over time and history.
