SOC 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Food Studies, Population Geography, Gender Role
9 Mar 2018
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Inquiring attitude, analytical capacity: a diversity of perspectives (interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary, transformative envisioning an alternative food system that is more sustainable and just. Utilization (output: positivist inquiry- scientism/nutritionism, mind/body dualism, public/private and the gender divide , gender role has specific values or variances from food choices. September 11, 2017: eg, men: involes engineering- tend to pick more agricultural food resources, women: nursing- tend to pick more healthy foods. Food culture and identity: biological, micro: individual, your specific individual situation can affect your food choices, eg. You are a student you tend to buy cheap food because of school expenses: identity badge, you are picking your own preferences, a product, a political tool. September 11, 2017: to take a political voice, you are picking something that you support on, eg. You pick nestle water than dasani: an object of emotion, about how you feel to eat, cravings, a ritual object, eg.
