SOC 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Chopsticks, Food Regimes, Leon Kass

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 808
• Professor: Mustafa Koc

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Questions you can ask about obesity for example. Good questions to answer for first and second writing assignment. Multiple choice question argue in modern society certain. Forces play a role in peoples dietary practices. Food is fundamental, fun, frightening, and far-reaching. Eating is an intimate exchange between the environment and the self: environment and self is socially regulated. Food disgusts are not simply centered on the sensory aspects of a food, but on knowledge of its nature or origin. Leon kass hungry soul great paradox of eating m/c (cid:862)great paradox of eati(cid:374)g of eati(cid:374)g(cid:863) to preserve their life and form living forms necessarily destroy life and form. Eating involves appropriation, incorporation, and deformation of a co(cid:373)plex other, a(cid:374)d its ho(cid:373)oge(cid:374)izatio(cid:374) i(cid:374)to si(cid:373)ples . Beautified by graceful deed and tactful speech. Its violence and destructive nature is hidden by cultural codes.