SOC 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Survival Game, Nomadic Pastoralism, Oligopoly
12 Mar 2018
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Roots of tradition the traditions that we associate with the way we grow, process, distribute, prepare, and eat our food were in large measure constructed by the larger social and economic processes such as colonialism, development, and globalization . Most common way of securing food has been hunting and gathering. About 10,000 years ago first agricultural societies emerged people would settle in areas where there was water, there they began to domesticate animals and plants. General characteristics of the modern food system can be listed as: We have a very efficient, productive, and profitable food system (exam question) our strength are : cheap food, good jobs, productive, safe, unbound by space and season these strength can also be a liability of our food system. Capitalism an economic system characterized by private ownership of the means of production, from which personal (refer to notes)
